Pigs with human genes have been in the news as Cambridge surgeons prepare to transplant their hearts and kidneys into human beings, but this is only scratching the surface of the revolution taking place in the world of genetics.

Archive 1997

Headless human clones to make organs? Well another method is nearly here: scientists have grown an entire kidney from a pig inside a mouse (it was perfectly in proportion and very small).

Video on the future of biotech - growing organs on headless humans.

Monarch butterlies may be threatened by pollen from genetically modified maize. That's the conclusion of a new Monarch Butterfly survival study by Cornell University published in Nature (Archive 21 May 1999).

British scientists have created a frog embryo without a head.

Could the same procss used to create the headless frog be adapted to grow human organs such as hearts, kidneys, liver and pancreases in an embryonic sac living in an artificial womb?

Archive: October 1997