Researchers successfully produced the first sheep-human hybrid embryos. The embryos were not allowed to develop past 28 days of age but it is a step forward into growing human organs for transplant.

Human-sheep hybrids have been created by scientists for the first time, opening the door to organs being grown inside the farmyard animals for use in transplants or to cure diabetes.

Scientists say they've created the first human-sheep hybrid in a lab in research that could one day supply organs for human transplants. Researchers from Stanford University and the University of ...

Scientists Create First Human-Sheep Hybrids Scientists grew embryos containing both sheep and human cells creating a hybrid creature, that's 99 percent sheep and 0.01 percent human.

The same team this week announced they had achieved similar sheep embryos, in which around one in every 10,000 cells was human. The scientists say they are already able to genetically modify pig ...

Scientists Announce New Animal-Human Hybrid Experiment — This Time With Sheep Only 0.01 percent of human cells were used, but it paves the way for future experiments to combine species.

Sheep and pigs are used because their organs are roughly the right size to be transplanted into humans. But to actually develop an organ, the embryos would need to have about 1 percent of human ...

It sounds like sci-fi, but it’s just science. Researchers have created the first human-sheep hybrids, which could lead the way for organs to be grown in animals that can be transplanted into … ...

They’re neither strictly sheep nor fully human. ... These human-animal hybrids, or interspecies chimeras, are not just the product of bizarre experimentation done for the sake of science.

Scientists say they’ve grown sheep embryos with human cells, an achievement that could one day supply organs for human transplants and offer a cure for Type 1 diabetes. » RELATED: Dad who wore ...