Posted on 10/20/2021 10:44:57 AM PDT by DFG
Surgeons at a New York City hospital have successfully attached a pig’s kidney to a person, whose immune system didn’t immediately reject the organ — a ground-breaking procedure that may one day lead to the use of animals in life-saving transplants.
The recipient at NYU Langone Health was a brain-dead woman who received the kidney of a pig whose genes had been altered so its tissues no longer harbored a molecule known to trigger almost immediate rejection, according to Reuters.
The family of the patient — who showed signs of kidney dysfunction — consented to the experiment before she was due to be removed from life support, scientists told the outlet.
Researchers had access to the kidney for three days as the organ was maintained outside her body while attached to her blood vessels, according to the news outlet.
Dr. Robert Montgomery, who led the study, said test results from the kidney’s function “looked pretty normal,” adding that the organ produced “the amount of urine that you would expect” from a transplanted human kidney.
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What’s the shelf life on a pig kidney?
Animal Rights “activists” will go crazy!
It doesn’t matter. You can pretty much make them at will.
Weird.
“she’s just lying around— May as well use her for something”
“Hey, we could attach a pig kidney to her and see what happens…”
“Hold ma beer…”
What is surprising to me is that no one has ever tried this before.
Or did they? I seem to remember it.
Or is this ANOTHER Mandela effect? That’s TWO today!!!
Try it on muslims first
Was the pig fully vaccinated?
A neighbor had an implanted heart valve from a cow!
(80 year-old neighbor at that...)
Pig man?
The Head Surgeon speaks to a reporter:
“The transplant has gone extremely well!
There is a temporary side effect which induces involuntary Oinking from the patient when excited and a marked desire for taking Mud Baths several times each day, but these minor events should stop in six months or less.”
Watch the Muslim outrage.
Pig kidneys may last for years on a shelf but based on my house, bacon only lasts a few minutes.
Pignificantly longer than for a rat kidney
There is an old cryptid legend about the VT pigman who attacked folks
I knew a guy who got a goat liver. Only shortly afterwards he developed an inordinate and criminal affinity for kids.
but was the pig vaccinated?
Is PETA protesting yet?
I look forward to the day when human organs can be grown from the patient’s own stem cells.
It is coming.
They are trying to grow organs and especially skin at many different institutions such as Harvard, GA Tech, Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins.
Along with a several other private companies.
Expect it some time in the next ten years. The first person group to accomplish it will win the Nobel Prize and become very rich.
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