New Scientist reports: Four more people with diabetes will soon be implanted with high doses of living pig cells coated in seaweed, bringing the prospect of widespread animal-to-human transplants a step closer.

Several people in New Zealand and Russia with type 1 diabetes have already received the “pig sushi”, known as Diabecell, and now New Zealand company Living Cell Technologies (LCT) has received approval from the country’s health authorities to begin phase II human trials on the implants.

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