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Posted on 05/29/2026 6:14:24 PM PDT by Red Badger
Organs from genetically modified pigs are being used in trials in China and the US.
A 53-year-old clinically dead man has become the first person to receive two kidneys and a whole liver from a genetically modified pig. The man’s organ function was sustained for almost five days with consent from his family, and there were no signs that the organs were being rejected in the first 24 hours, according to a study published in Med today1.
Most procedures in which a pig organ is transplanted into a person — known as xenotransplantation — involve only a single organ. A small number of people have received pig organs, including hearts, kidneys, partial livers and lungs, and clinical trials in living people are under way in the United States and China. Until now, only parts of a pig liver have been transplanted into a person, says Xuyong Sun, a clinician scientist who led the latest procedure at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University in Nanning, China.
Transplanting pig kidneys and a liver in the same procedure is also unique, says Leonardo Riella, a physician scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who in 2024 led the team that first transplanted a pig kidney into a living person. Transferring multiple organs is more complex than moving one; procedures take longer, increasing the risk of complications, and people who need multiple transplants are often more seriously ill, he adds.
The study shows that multi-organ xenotransplants are possible, says Wayne Hawthorne, a surgeon and transplant researcher at the University of Sydney in Australia.
Multi-organ transplants are already performed with human organs, but there is a shortage of donor organs, which is why research teams are investigating the use of pig kidneys.
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He was not declared dead that she understood. He was in life support. He wasn’t dead until they pulled it off.
You twisted what I was saying. I was talking about organ donation cards being misused. People do not know they are literally signing their lives away.
You are the one who twisted what I was saying by suggesting that I want 50,000 people to die.
That’s not the case at all.
I will reiterate that the organ harvesting BUSINESS is a big money maker, and very often, devastating for the family who lost a loved one due to aggressive “healthcare” workers.
One life traded for another. One paid money to get another chance, and the other gave up their own life without realizing they were going to be forced to give up so quickly.
“You twisted what I was saying. I was talking about organ donation cards being misused.”
If you are going to accuse me, please post my comment that you think applies.
Your first post said organ donor program.
111”You are the one who twisted what I was saying by suggesting that I want 50,000 people to die.”
Another misrepresentation of my post.
Once the patient fully recovered, he was plagued with an uncontrollable desire to wallow in mud puddles and root for grubs.
“I will reiterate that the organ harvesting BUSINESS is a big money maker,”
Where is the big money maker?
“One life traded for another.”
Donation only occurs after death.
“One paid money to get another chance”
What money?
You truly are naive.
“You truly are naive.”
Your claim of big money but you can’t even identify where or what it is.
The organ recipient pays a lot of money for the organ, or don’t you understand that?
The deceased donates the organ, but the recipient pays handsomely for the procedure to happen. Big bucks.
Mmmm... Pig liver and kidneys. Yum yum!
It’s pork sausage.
I like beef liver and chicken liver, but not pork livers.........
“The organ recipient pays a lot of money for the organ, or don’t you understand that?”
The recipient does not pay for the organ.
So the doctors and surgical teams donate their time and expertise, not to mention the ER, and the hospital stay afterwards?
Good to know.
We may disagree on this topic, but you are still a FRiend. Goodnight.
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Probably a “used” market for that in San Francisco.
“All I know about cooking kidneys is ya gotta boil the piss outta them.”
Yep - but my grandmother used to make a kidney stew that i liked as a child - haven’t had anything like it since maybe the age of 10...unique texture when chewing.
Gosh - I guess you don’t have the “donor” box checked on your license. I suppose there may be a very few cases where someone might ‘live’ but for the most part, organs save the lives of others who can actually live.
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