全球最大豬肉生產商計劃供應豬器官給人類做器官移植
World's largest pork producer is exploring ways to grow human organs from pig parts
Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, doesn't just raise pigs to be eaten.
作為全球最大的豬肉生產商,史密斯菲爾德食品公司養豬可不僅僅是為了做成食品.
The company announced lately that it plans to explore the possibility of using its hogs for medical purposes, including growing tissue and organs that can be transplanted into humans.
該公司日前宣布計劃探索在醫療領域利用豬的可能性,如利用豬生長可以移植到人類體中的組織和器官.
There hasn't yet been a successful transplant of a pig organ into a human, but recent scientific breakthroughs and advanced technology such as gene-editing tools are making the possibility more likely.
雖然目前尚未出現成功將豬器官移植到人身上的案例,但最近的科學突破和基因編輯工具等先進技術的出現,正在提高這一設想成功的可能性.
To use pig parts - like hearts or lungs - for human transplants, scientists have to edit certain genes to make the organs viable.
為了使豬的器官（如心臟或肺）能夠用于人體移植,科學家必須編輯某些基因.
Courtney Stanton, VP of Smithfield Bioscience, tells Business Insider that the company hopes to use certain pig parts that usually go to waste, like hearts, to develop organs for humans.
史密斯菲爾德生物科技公司副總裁考特尼•斯坦頓告訴《商業內幕》網站,說其公司希望使用那些通常只能白白浪費的豬器官（如心臟）來開發移植人體的器官.
"First and foremost, we are a food company," she says.
"首先,我們是一家食品公司."她說.
"Part of that responsibility is making sure we utilise the entire animal, and minimise waste. There are many parts of the animal which are not typically eaten. However, we have found valuable uses for these parts such as supplying them to the medical community."
"公司的責任包括確保我們利用動物的所有部分,盡可能減少浪費.動物的許多部分通常不會制成食品,但是我們已經發現這些部分也可以物盡其用,例如供應給醫療界."
In April, Smithfield joined a public-private tissue-engineering consortium, which is funded by an US$80 million grant from the US Department of Defence. Smithfield has also launched a separate unit, Smithfield Bioscience, to oversee its medical ventures.
4月,史密斯菲爾德公司加入了一個公共私營組織工程學聯合會,該聯合會得到美國國防部8000萬美元的資助.公司還成立了一個單獨的子公司——史密斯菲爾德生物科學公司,來監督其醫療事業的發展.
Smithfield slaughters approximately 16 million pigs every year, and hopes to start selling pig parts directly to researchers and healthcare companies that conduct research on pig-human transplants.
史密斯菲爾德公司每年屠殺約1600萬頭豬,并希望能夠直接將豬的器官出售給研究人員和醫療保健公司,以研究用于人類移植的豬器官.
