Piglets bring hope to patients

BEIJING - Chinese scientists hope the country's first group of genetically modified (GM) cloned piglets will have organs that are suitable to be transplanted into humans.

They expect the special pigs will be born within the next six months.

"The genetically modified piglets could bring hope to people who are in need of organ transplants but have failed to find a donor," said Zhao Zijian, head of the Metabolic Disease Research Center at Nanjing Medical University.