Putin Bets Big on Bio-Printed Organs and Mini-Pigs to Fight Aging
Putin leads a $26 billion longevity initiative focused on bio-printing tissues and growing human organs inside mini-pigs, with his daughter Maria Vorontsova and physicist Mikhail Kovalchuk at the helm; early milestones include bioprinted cartilage and a mouse thyroid, with a goal of human organ replacement by the decade's end, though some scientists question the lack of peer‑reviewed validation.