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| | RESEARCHERS PRESENT DATA ON FIRST CLONED, DOUBLE KNOCK-OUT MINIATURE SWINE |
 | | The ultimate goal of this research, which is being conducted in partnership with Immerge BioTherapeutics, Inc., is to develop a herd of miniature swine that can be used as a safe source for human transplantation, a process known as xenotransplantation. |
 | | This genetic material was then sent to Prather’s lab, where Liangxue Lai, a research assistant professor at MU, and colleagues implanted it into an egg that had its DNA eliminated. |
 | | These cells were then subjected to another round of nuclear transfer cloning, leading to the birth of the double knock-out piglet on Nov. |
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