It Could Help Meet Transplant Needs to Use a Patient's

question 78

Multiple Choice

It could help meet transplant needs to use a patient's own stem cells to grow a human liver in a pig embryo modified by CRISPR.As an additional and essential step in the process to ensure the liver is safe for the patient,CRISPR should be used to

• A) knock out all of the pig brain genes to prevent the pig brain cells from infecting the patient.
• B) insert human immune cell DNA into the pig embryo to make it more similar to the patient.
• C) insert human hemoglobin DNA into the pig embryo to make it possible for the growing pig to support the human liver.
• D) knock out all of the porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) genes to prevent infection of the human patient with porcine endogenous retroviruses.

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