How Scientists Made the World’s First Human-Pig Hybrid

From Dom Burgess.

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Dom explores why scientists have been making human-pig hybrids and the dark path that these ethically dubious experiments may lead us down. Oh, and all whilst trying to re-capture an escaped experimental pig-monster in the woods.
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Credits:
Written and Directed by Dom Burgess
DOP: Ben Samson
Cam Assistant: Adam Shaikh
Sound: Adam Bertenshaw
Steadycam Op: Henry Owen
Runner: Lucy Burgess
Pigman: Daniel Craig (from James Bond)
Edited by Dom Burgess
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Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/EveryThink
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Sources:
https://www.salk.edu/news-release/new-findings-highlight-promise-chimeric-organisms-science-medicine/
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02275-3
https://www.donatelife.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2019-NDLM-Donation-and-Transplantation-Statistics-FINAL-Jan2019.pdf
https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/kidney-transplant
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/11/the-five-chimeras-human-monkey-hybrid-genetic
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/6/3/480/5420749
https://singularityhub.com/2019/08/13/wait-what-the-first-human-monkey-hybrid-embryo-was-just-created-in-china/
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201904/02/WS5ca31228a3104842260b3fa3.html#:~:text=Scientists%20have%20identified%20several%20genes,characterized%20by%20a%20small%20brain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcephalin
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/01/652/scientists-are-making-human-monkey-hybrids-in-china/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-monkey-hybrid-china-organ-transplant-stem-cells-embryo-a9037506.html