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Smithfield makes move on market for pig-human transplants

Reuters: Science - Posted: April 12th, 2017, 12:26am UTC

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, has established a separate bioscience unit to expand its role in supplying pig parts for medical uses, with the ultimate goal of selling pig organs for transplantation into humans.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=lKMDnT2cBRw:Eii5hdAjWCE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=lKMDnT2cBRw:Eii5hdAjWCE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=lKMDnT2cBRw:Eii5hdAjWCE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=lKMDnT2cBRw:Eii5hdAjWCE:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=lKMDnT2cBRw:Eii5hdAjWCE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/lKMDnT2cBRw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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