New York surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally
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Omg… never gave a Gold in reddit. Now I just wished we had It here haha
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.
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.
Wait, they transplanted a pig’s kidney into a… corpse? How did they get authorization for that experiment exactly? The family donated the body to science?
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I can only assume the pig consented to this. What a kind animal.
It had another kidney, so I’m sure it’s fine.
We asked. It oinked.
Pig Kidney also sounds like a cool band name.