20-10-2021, 09:49 AM
(20-10-2021, 09:19 AM)Levin Wrote: October 20, 2021
8:37 AM +08
Last Updated 41 minutes ago
By Nancy Lapid
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The procedure done at NYU Langone Health in New York City involved use of a pig whose genes had been altered so that its tissues no longer contained a molecule known to trigger almost immediate rejection.
The recipient was a brain-dead patient with signs of kidney dysfunction whose family consented to the experiment before she was due to be taken off of life support, researchers told Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthc...021-10-19/
It is found that a pig's organs are similar to a human's organ, thence an organ transplant from a pig is possible...only problem is how to not let the organ to be rejected by the human recipient..
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