What is Pigoon?
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A pigoon is a fictional creature from Margaret Atwood's novel 'Oryx and Crake'.
A pigoon is a laboratory (commercial) pig with human stems cells implanted into it, to grow organs of choice.
"The goal of the pigoon project was to grow an assortment of foolproof human-tissue organs in a transgenic knockout pig host..."
(M.Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Virago Press 2004, p. 25)
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