Next step BRAIN TRANSPLANTS......................
Posted on 10/21/2021 11:55:02 AM PDT by billorites
Scientists temporarily attached a pig's kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.
Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage, but among the hurdles: A sugar in pig cells, foreign to the human body, causes immediate organ rejection. The kidney for this experiment came from a gene-edited animal, engineered to eliminate that sugar and avoid an immune system attack.
Surgeons attached the pig kidney to a pair of large blood vessels outside the body of a deceased recipient so they could observe it for two days. The kidney did what it was supposed to do — filter waste and produce urine — and didn't trigger rejection.
"It had absolutely normal function," said Dr. Robert Montgomery, who led the surgical team last month at NYU Langone Health. "It didn't have this immediate rejection that we have worried about."
This research is "a significant step," said Dr. Andrew Adams of the University of Minnesota Medical School, who was not part of the work. It will reassure patients, researchers and regulators "that we're moving in the right direction."
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Do you have to give up eating Bacon?
Next step BRAIN TRANSPLANTS......................
Well, they already gave Biden a pig brain.
Medical experiments without caring too much what the human lab rat thinks about the situation — very 21st century.
I hoping that it was a Muslim man . . .
If you’re okay with being slightly cannibalistic, no.
Well, he/she was dead, so probably not thinking about much.
For liberals, no doubt it will be an upgrade . . .
Idk why but first thing that hit my brain was man-bear-pig.
Life-saving organs and bacon too!!!
Big man, pig man
Ha ha, charade you are
come’on man!
even a pig is smarter than that.
Between him and Hunter they might fill a can....................
Meh - big nothing burger
We have a horses ass as POTUS
What am I missing here? If the recipient is deceased, how can any organ work? Everything is decaying. Did they mean "diseased"?
I bet Muslims are jumping for joy. /sarc
With some people, that kidney would feel right at home.
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