FRANKENSCIENCE WATCH:"Japanese scientist claims breakthrough with organ grown in sheep... "

Huddled at the back of her shed, bleating under a magnificent winter coat and tearing cheerfully at a bale of hay, she is possibly the answer to Japan’s chronic national shortage of organ donors: a sheep with a revolutionary secret.Guided by one of the animal’s lab-coated creators, the visitor’s hand is led to the creature’s underbelly and towards a spot in the middle under eight inches of greasy wool. Lurking there is a spare pancreas.....
If the science that put it there can be pushed further forward, Japan may be spared an ethical and practical crisis that has split medical and political opinion. ...