From pig to human.
Human medicine has tried to overcome all organic dysfunctions that negatively affect health, and with a lot of effort, it has managed to considerably lengthen people's life expectancy. The latest research has shown that pork is a great choice for medicine. Transplants and implants of organs, glands, tissues, and cells, from pigs to people. In the closing years of the 21st century, the demand for transplants and implants grew to exceed the supply of human organs. This fact led the scientific community to look for alternatives such as xenotransplantation (transplantation between different species) with species such as the pig since this animal has a series of characteristics: similarity of the porcine genome with the human genome, and physiology of some of its organs with those of humans. The pig has turned out to be a good option for transplants of skin, pancreas, heart valves, pituitary gland, etc. The pig is a source of medicine. The pig is also being used to produce som...