Japan’s first research center breeding miniature pigs to provide transplant organs for humans is to be established at a university in the city of Kagoshima, government officials said Saturday.
The center, at Kagoshima University, is expected to employ about eight staff drawn from the university’s gene and animal experimentation facilities, the officials said.
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