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Researchers create first viable human-animal hybrid embryo

Researchers create first viable human-animal hybrid embryo
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Scientists have created the first human-animal hybrids in a major breakthrough which could address a critical shortage of donor organs.

A team of international researchers have grown human cells inside pig embryos which could eventually form the early stages of human organs, however, ethical questions continue to cause controversy

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