Indeed, gene-edited pigs have already been used to model pigmentation defects, deafness syndromes, Parkinson’s disease, and immunological disorders, and the list will continue to grow. Many scientists see the pig itself as a potential source of medicine. Someday soon, we might be using pigs as bioreactors to produce valuable drugs like therapeutic human proteins, which are too complex to synthesize from scratch and can only be produced in living cells.
