Posted on 03/21/2024 9:01:21 AM PDT by billorites
A 62-year-old man suffering from end-stage kidney disease received a genetically modified pig kidney in an unprecedented transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, a step forward in the effort to help people waiting for organs.
The pig kidney was genetically edited by eGenesis, a Cambridge, Mass.-based company, which removed pig genes that can harm people, including the gene that produces a sugar molecule on the surface of pig cells that can trigger the human system to attack pig organs. The company added human genes to try to improve the odds that the patient won’t reject the transplant.
The patient, Richard Slayman of Weymouth, Mass., is recovering at Massachusetts General Hospital, hospital officials said Thursday.
Pig kidneys have been transplanted into brain-dead people, but this is the first successful transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney into a living person. A genetically modified pig heart was transplanted in January 2022 into a critically ill man at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He died two months later.
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Just let me die.
Wow
Cool stuff.
Somewhere, someone must have a stash of genetically modified scrapple.
“I never sausage a thing!” he squealed with delight!...........
SOOOOOWEEEET~!......................
Maybe this was already done in Haiti and explains the cannibalism. Pork is hard to resist!
Yes indeed. My Dad had a pig valve installed to replace a faulty valve in his own heart. They wouldn’t give him a mechanical valve, they said he was too old.
He recovered just fine and didn’t need any anti-rejection meds.
This was in the early ‘80s. He lived another 20 years.
Funny!😀
“No- but i did fill out my “Piano Donor” card already, does that count?”
Just like “The Island 🏝 of Dr. Moreau”.
Maybe we can now go back to the days of “GOAT GLAND IMPLANTS!”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/documentary-interview-medicine-science
I had no idea Letitia James needed a kidney?
This whole program will soon be shut down by the FDA as Islamophobic.
Well, as long as it doesn’t interfere with my love for bacon.
Next up, reproductive organs, so trannies can get taxpayer funded transplants as part of “gender affirming care.”
You may think I am being facetious, but I’m not. Coming soon to an Obamanation near you.
SWEET - Pig-man!
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