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Salk Institute

The Promise of Chimeric Organisms

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Salk scientists advance stem-cell and genome-editing technologies to help researchers study evolution and disease, test therapeutic drugs and possibly grow transplantable organs. Here, human iPS cells (green) contributed to a developing heart of 4-week-old pig embryo.

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