Midwest Research Swine expanded its business in 2010 by adding Midwest Porcine Recovery and building its own porcine only abattoir. Located 55 minutes west of the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport in Glencoe, MN. This facility contains scalders, hide leveling equipment and trained personnel to collect and process tissue.

The facility employs 12 now, with potential for more growth as new markets are developed.

Two and one-half years ago, an article was published in Nature Medicine that described the research done in a laboratory at the University of Minnesota. The article stunned both the scientific community and the lay press, both of which were effusive with their praise and made the authors of the article overnight celebrities. Harald Ott and Doris Taylor had removed the heart from a recently euthanized animal, decellularized it, and then injected it with a mixture of heart cells from a donor rat. After only eight days in a bioreactor, the heart began to beat again.