FOUR genetically engineered pigs from Harvard University in the United States are to be sent to a Chinese hospital in the southwestern Sichuan Province for use in pig-to-monkey organ transplant experiments, a doctor... ...full story at Shanghai Daily
from Shanghai Daily on Fri, Jul 03 2009
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