Pigs to be cloned for organs Infigen Inc., a unit of ABS Global, DeForest, Wisc., is teaming with the University of Illinois to begin production of cloned pigs. Ill. The University of Illinois will provide recipient female pigs, or gilts, to receive the cloned embryos. It will then provide management of the pregnant gilts through farrowing and rearing of the cloned pigs. Infigen is trying to clone pigs so their organs can be transplanted into humans. The firm cloned a calf named Gene in 1997 and it hopes to clone a pig in a few months.
Researchers hope that someday cloned organs can reduce that cost substantially.
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