Biomedical Market Outlook: Adding transplanted organs into pork production
Recently, according to a number of foreign media reports, Smithfield Foods, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the world's largest pork food company, Wan Group, established a bioscience department, which plans to explore it. The possibility of pigs for medical purposes, including the growth of tissues and organs that can be transplanted into humans.
Smithfield Foods was founded in 1936 and is headquartered in Virginia, USA. Its parent company is Wanzhou International, a well-known food shuanghui ham. Its predecessor was Shuanghui International, which was renamed in January 2014. In 2013, Wanzhou International successfully acquired Smithfield for US$7.1 billion, becoming the world's largest pork processing enterprise and the largest M&A case in Sino-US history.
As the first step in the development strategy of Wanzhou International to enter the bioscience industry, the new department of biosciences uses the by-products generated during the meat production process to explore new methods and technologies, and to find information on tissue regeneration and proper transplantation of human organs. Countermeasures.
Courtney Stanton, vice president of new bioscience at Smithfield, said in an interview: "We have always been a food-focused job, producing bacon, sausage and fresh pork with bread and butter. This time we want to let the medical and scientific communities know that medical care is also our concern."
Pig source biomedical use has a long history
The idea of ​​using pigs in human medicine has been around for a long time. The new food economy pointed out that the first human-porcine corneal transplant occurred in 1838. But porcine insulin is the first product to prove that pork by-products can save human life on a large scale.
It is equivalent to being sentenced to death for a child who has diabetes. The only treatment is hunger therapy. However, in 1923, Lilly began selling insulin extracted from pig pancreas. A child with diabetes, after treatment with insulin, can magically recover from a state of hunger and weakness to a full state, which was a miracle drug at the time.
Every morning, a truck loaded with frozen pigs and cattle pancreas from Chicago enters the company's Indianapolis factory, where it is cut, soaked, distilled and purified in a methodical manner, turning into a bottle that is more precious than gold. insulin.
A photo shows that a 10,000-pound pancreas can make a pound of concentrated insulin crystals.
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