Scientists made special pigs with human hemoglobin genes, and those pigs can actually make working human-like blood that carries oxygen and responds to body signals just like ours.

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Correct assembly of human normal adult hemoglobin when expressed in transgenic swine: chemical, conformational and functional equivalence with the human-derived protein.

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The study shows that genetically modified pigs make human hemoglobin just like people do, and it works exactly the same way.

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Correct assembly of human normal adult hemoglobin when expressed in transgenic swine: chemical, conformational and functional equivalence with the human-derived protein.

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DOI: 10.1093/PROTEIN/11.7.583

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Hemoglobin made in genetically modified pigs works just like the real thing from humans — it's built right, behaves the same, and carries oxygen the way it should, no lab fixes needed.

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Hemoglobin made in genetically modified pigs works just like human hemoglobin without needing lab chemicals to fix it, but when it's made in bacteria or yeast, it does need extra chemical tweaks to work right.

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