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Smithfield makes move on market for pig-human transplants

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. [Source]

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Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/lKMDnT2cBRw/us-health-smithfield-foods-organs-idUSKBN17E0AM