In a bold scientific step that helps open the door to organ transplants from animals, researchers at Harvard and a private company have created gene-edited piglets cleansed of viruses that might cause disease in humans.
The advance, reported on Thursday in the journal Science, may make it possible one day to transplant livers, hearts and other organs from pigs into humans, a hope that experts had all but given up.
4 comments:
I have friends who had pig valves replacing their own during heart operations.
If it saves lives!!!
They should experiment with this on the prisoners at gitmo
Oink Oink!
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