New York surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally

  • BadEngineering
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    81 year ago

    This is really exciting news, The severe lack of viable transplant organs has been a serious hinderance to the medical profession. If the process can be perfected this has the potential to save millions of lives.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      I’m betting that we’ll be able to clone organs before this is ever a truly viable option. It might be used as a stop gap until an organ is grown, but I seriously doubt it’ll be a main course of treatment.

      • UFO
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        21 year ago

        I think you’re right but I also bet there is overlapping technology between the two.