Posted on 04/26/2024 7:35:35 AM PDT by airdalecheif
A New Jersey woman is alive and improving after undergoing experimental transplant surgery involving a kidney from a genetically modified pig.
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Mr Sin was a 51st century cyborg made by Dr. Sa Yy Findecker for Ingrid Bjarnsdottir, the commissioner of the Icelandic Alliance, as a toy for her two children.
It contained a series of magnetic fields on a printed circuit, a small computer, and a single organic component: the cerebral cortex of a pig.
(TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang; AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane) It was differentiated from its brothers in this way. (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat)
The Homunculus attacked Commissioner Bjarnsdottir’s son with a table fork. However, he survived and could not see what all the fuss was about. In fact, he believed that the cyborg was playing a game with him. (AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane)
It played a key role in history when the pig part took over and almost caused World War VI, then disappeared. It later showed up in the possession of Magnus Greel, a fugitive war criminal from the fallen Supreme Alliance. He took it with him to the 19th century. Armed with a knife, it did his bidding.
During the final battle between the Fourth Doctor and Greel, Mr Sin, whom Greel had unwisely allowed access to a laser rifle, became trigger-happy and fired at anyone who moved, including Greel’s men and Greel himself. The Doctor finally threw it to the ground and tore out its fuse. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
Sherlock Holmes later investigated Mr Sin, terming it The Affair of the Walking Ventriloquist’s Dummy, but was unable to solve the matter. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)
Sin was later reactivated by Hsien-Ko Chang, the daughter of Greel’s former ally, Li H’sen Chang, using the prototype control fuse and brains from a slaughterhouse. Hsien-Ko believed that she could use Sin as a weapon the way Greel had failed to do so.
Although she maintained a tighter hold on Sin’s more violent tendencies — disguising him as a child to avoid attracting attention — she lost control when he was damaged in a fight at her base. In the subsequent fight, the Doctor decapitated Sin. K9 later destroyed the cyborg’s head to prevent it ever being reactivated. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)
Jago and Litefoot discovered Mr Sin inside Magnus Greel’s time cabinet in 1968. (AUDIO: The Bloodchild Codex) It was later revealed that Mr Sin was reconstructed by Guinevere Godiva as an assistant for the recreated Magnus Greel. However, when Greel was killed, Jago and Litefoot destroyed Mr Sin again. (AUDIO: The Final Act)
Mr Sin was a 51st century cyborg made by Dr. Sa Yy Findecker for Ingrid Bjarnsdottir, the commissioner of the Icelandic Alliance, as a toy for her two children.
It contained a series of magnetic fields on a printed circuit, a small computer, and a single organic component: the cerebral cortex of a pig.
(TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang; AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane) It was differentiated from its brothers in this way. (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat)
The Homunculus attacked Commissioner Bjarnsdottir’s son with a table fork. However, he survived and could not see what all the fuss was about. In fact, he believed that the cyborg was playing a game with him. (AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane)
It played a key role in history when the pig part took over and almost caused World War VI, then disappeared. It later showed up in the possession of Magnus Greel, a fugitive war criminal from the fallen Supreme Alliance. He took it with him to the 19th century. Armed with a knife, it did his bidding.
During the final battle between the Fourth Doctor and Greel, Mr Sin, whom Greel had unwisely allowed access to a laser rifle, became trigger-happy and fired at anyone who moved, including Greel’s men and Greel himself. The Doctor finally threw it to the ground and tore out its fuse. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
Sherlock Holmes later investigated Mr Sin, terming it The Affair of the Walking Ventriloquist’s Dummy, but was unable to solve the matter. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)
Sin was later reactivated by Hsien-Ko Chang, the daughter of Greel’s former ally, Li H’sen Chang, using the prototype control fuse and brains from a slaughterhouse. Hsien-Ko believed that she could use Sin as a weapon the way Greel had failed to do so.
Although she maintained a tighter hold on Sin’s more violent tendencies — disguising him as a child to avoid attracting attention — she lost control when he was damaged in a fight at her base. In the subsequent fight, the Doctor decapitated Sin. K9 later destroyed the cyborg’s head to prevent it ever being reactivated. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)
Jago and Litefoot discovered Mr Sin inside Magnus Greel’s time cabinet in 1968. (AUDIO: The Bloodchild Codex) It was later revealed that Mr Sin was reconstructed by Guinevere Godiva as an assistant for the recreated Magnus Greel. However, when Greel was killed, Jago and Litefoot destroyed Mr Sin again. (AUDIO: The Final Act)
Mr Sin was a 51st century cyborg made by Dr. Sa Yy Findecker for Ingrid Bjarnsdottir, the commissioner of the Icelandic Alliance, as a toy for her two children.
It contained a series of magnetic fields on a printed circuit, a small computer, and a single organic component: the cerebral cortex of a pig.
(TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang; AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane) It was differentiated from its brothers in this way. (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat)
The Homunculus attacked Commissioner Bjarnsdottir’s son with a table fork. However, he survived and could not see what all the fuss was about. In fact, he believed that the cyborg was playing a game with him. (AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane)
It played a key role in history when the pig part took over and almost caused World War VI, then disappeared. It later showed up in the possession of Magnus Greel, a fugitive war criminal from the fallen Supreme Alliance. He took it with him to the 19th century. Armed with a knife, it did his bidding.
During the final battle between the Fourth Doctor and Greel, Mr Sin, whom Greel had unwisely allowed access to a laser rifle, became trigger-happy and fired at anyone who moved, including Greel’s men and Greel himself. The Doctor finally threw it to the ground and tore out its fuse. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
Sherlock Holmes later investigated Mr Sin, terming it The Affair of the Walking Ventriloquist’s Dummy, but was unable to solve the matter. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)
Sin was later reactivated by Hsien-Ko Chang, the daughter of Greel’s former ally, Li H’sen Chang, using the prototype control fuse and brains from a slaughterhouse. Hsien-Ko believed that she could use Sin as a weapon the way Greel had failed to do so.
Although she maintained a tighter hold on Sin’s more violent tendencies — disguising him as a child to avoid attracting attention — she lost control when he was damaged in a fight at her base. In the subsequent fight, the Doctor decapitated Sin. K9 later destroyed the cyborg’s head to prevent it ever being reactivated. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)
Jago and Litefoot discovered Mr Sin inside Magnus Greel’s time cabinet in 1968. (AUDIO: The Bloodchild Codex) It was later revealed that Mr Sin was reconstructed by Guinevere Godiva as an assistant for the recreated Magnus Greel. However, when Greel was killed, Jago and Litefoot destroyed Mr Sin again. (AUDIO: The Final Act)
BBQ time for the pig. Nice news for the Woman. Wishing for continued
recovery for her.
Who knows? Maybe genetically modified pigs’ organs will work for others as well- modified pancreas’s, livers….
My Dad had a faulty heart valve and they replaced it with the valve from a pig. He didn’t need anti-rejection meds. This was 50 years ago. He lived for another 30.
What took them so long to try this?
With a terrible dry mouth and the taste of tequila- it’s wallet was stolen too
“ 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
The “beneficial” uses of transhumanist technology are supposed to outweigh the downsides.
Pig heart valve replacements are preserved tissue with far fewer rejection issues while pig kidney transplants are live tissue with lots of rejection issues to resolve.
I don’t think people are mocking it, just having a little fun. I would gratefully take a pig part to save or improve my life and probably still be making bacon jokes about myself.
Her first words were “oink, oink”.
A heart valve is not a complete organ and it can be chemically treated before it is transplanted to prevent rejection, as I understand. I'm glad it bought your dad 30 years.
Several major research hospitals have been working on complete organ transplants from animals for years. In fact, there have been several over the last four or five years, but the patient most always died due to rejection. A full organ can not be pretreated the way a valve is. The same treatment that works on a valve would kill the organ. The key has been to genetically modify the host (the pig) to remove the factors that cause the rejection. It's like putting a man on the moon -- only more complicated.
Anyway, we sure seem to be moving closer to solving the problem -- even if can't land a person on the moon again :-).
I agree. My son suffered kidney damage among other issues due to contracting sepsis when he was nearly two years old. I’m really hoping some of these new technologies will bear fruit in the next several years. While I hope not to have to get to the point where we may need a transplant, I really hope that the technology matures and can help many people.
You're probably right.
I may be a little too sensitive from my years on dialysis. Not so much for myself but for the hundreds of other patients I crossed paths with and watching them die a slow death -- not all have a slow death, but many, many do.
I might do the same as you, but my family might have to chain me to keep me from rooting around the back yard :-).
She’ll be up and oinking about in no time.
So Bill Clinton donated a kidney.
LOL
That's terrible. How old is he now and what is his kidney function (GFR)?
There are certainly ways to keep from losing more, in many cases. In so many cases the nephrologists don't always give all the answers.
There is an incredible amount of research with good potential to come up with good solutions.
Thanks for the info! I have a vested interest myself, having received a new liver in 2021. I like to keep up with this stuff.
I understand. I watched a program on YouTube once where they were
“Stripping” human hearts of their DNA somehow and preparing them to receive, I don’t remember now, some genetic material (?) to prepare that heart for transplantation into a recipient. The research they are doing today is really fascinating.
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