I guess that’s ok. Hopefully the pig didn’t get the Covid vax
I guess that’s ok. Hopefully the pig didn’t get the Covid vax
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>A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a seven-month old Bama miniature pig which had been genetically modified to reduce the risk of rejection. Once removed, it was kept ‘alive’ using a medical solution and chilled to 0-4C. During the nine-hour-long surgery the recipient – a 50-year-old clinically dead man whose family had authorised the procedure – had the donor liver stitched to his blood vessels in his abdomen alongside his own liver. Over the next 10 days, the donor liver successfully produced bile and maintained a stable blood flow. The team hope that rather than a long-term solution, their procedure could one day be used as a temporary treatment for patients with liver failure while they wait for a human donor.
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>>A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people.
Scientists in China used a liver taken from a seven-month old Bama miniature pig which had been genetically modified to reduce the risk of rejection.
Once removed, it was kept ‘alive’ using a medical solution and chilled to 0-4C.
During the nine-hour-long surgery the recipient – a 50-year-old clinically dead man whose family had authorised the procedure – had the donor liver stitched to his blood vessels in his abdomen alongside his own liver.
Over the next 10 days, the donor liver successfully produced bile and maintained a stable blood flow.
The team hope that rather than a long-term solution, their procedure could one day be used as a temporary treatment for patients with liver failure while they wait for a human donor.
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