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Hey, shortwavers.
Regina Barber here, and I'm here with my colleague, NPR health correspondent and awesome guy Rob Stein.
Hey, Rob.
Hey, Gina.
I hear that you've been working on this really interesting story for the past year.
Yeah, yeah.
I've been following the developments of a biotech company called Revivicore that's been moving towards a very ambitious goal, and that is to use cloned, genetically modified farm animals to provide organs for transplants for humans.
Okay, so you're saying farm animals.
So there's like a farm just full of cloned animals?
Yeah, yeah.
In fact, I went to visit this farm.
I drove down a road through the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwest Virginia to visit the Rivercore Farm back in February.
This farm, it has like 22 buildings and around 300 pigs.
We had to change into hospital scrubs before going inside to protect the pigs.