CAAS Beijing Institute of Animal Genetic Engineering and Germplasm reports advances in minipig breeding

The group around Pingshu TANG has succeeded to inbreed minipigs to a high level of homozygosity, allowing for enhanced porcine xenograft standards. The minipigs will serve as models for human diseases, for drug analysis, and in future for cornea and liver xenotransplantation.

China Bio news release, July 9, 2014

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