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We're creating 'humanized pigs' in our ultraclean lab to study human illnesses and treatments

  • Written by Christopher Tuggle, Professor of Animal Science, Iowa State University
We're creating 'humanized pigs' in our ultraclean lab to study human illnesses and treatmentsPigs with human immune systems.Ahlea Forster, CC BY-SA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires all new medicines to be tested in animals before use in people. Pigs make better medical research subjects than mice, because they are closer to humans in size, physiology and genetic makeup.

In recent years, our team at Iowa State University has...

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