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20-10-2021, 09:19 AM

October 20, 2021
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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/

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US surgeons successfully test pig kidney transplant in human patient - by Levin - 20-10-2021, 09:19 AM

RE: US surgeons successfully test pig kidney transplant in human patient - by Yin yang - 20-10-2021, 09:30 AM

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