Posted on 08/10/2017 12:49:29 PM PDT by Red Badger
In a striking advance that helps open the door to organ transplants from animals, researchers have created gene-edited piglets cleansed of viruses that might cause disease in humans.
The experiments, reported on Thursday in the journal Science, may make it possible one day to transplant livers, hearts and other organs from pigs into humans, a hope that experts had all but given up.
If pig organs were shown to be safe and effective, “they could be a real game changer,” said Dr. David Klassen, chief medical officer at the United Network for Organ Sharing, a private, nonprofit organization that manages the nation’s transplant system.
There were 33,600 organ transplants last year, and 116,800 patients on waiting lists, according to Dr. Klassen, who was not involved in the new study. “There’s a big gap between organ supply and organ demand,” he said.
Dr. George Church, a geneticist at Harvard who led the experiments, said the first pig-to-human transplants could occur within two years.
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Yea, try that in Mecca!
might be better to try transplanting some human organs into a few of our PIG politicians
Of course, if your goal is to reduce the global population by 90%, this is an excellent idea. That's always the agenda-behind-the-agenda with the globalists.
It would be nice if pigs extended our lives to 150 years, but Muslims were unable to join us.
[ Providing an easy vector for animal diseases (of which there are many that humans have zero resistance for but which are by themselves unable to cross the species barrier) to cross over to human populations. ]
If the pigs are raised in a sterile environment then there should be no illnesses that you get from the transplant, HOWEVER, you would after receiving an organ be susceptible to catching a pig related illness if you went to visit pigs or any animal OR Human carriers of pig only diseases.
[ might be better to try transplanting some human organs into a few of our PIG politicians ]
I can think of a half dozen RINO-crats that could use pig testicle and spine transplants!
They’ve been doing it for decades.
Skin is the largest human organ.
Pig skin has been used as grafts for human burn victims since at least the 70s.
Here's something for the aspiring pianist.
Pig heart vales.
Lewis Grizzard once said the only problem he had with his was every afternoon he has an uncontrollable urge to go and make love in the mus.
Somehow I don’t think this will become popular in m*slim countries.
It's just an incredibly stupid idea, especially when genetic treatments that don't involve creating chimeras may soon be available. See here for one amazing possibility.
bkmk@
add some brains and you get an A
I bet the Muslim’s will be lining up for this...
” add some brains and you get an A “
Testicles, Spine and Brain, the “Missing trifecta” of the RINO Establishment.
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