From Science News:
Chimera experiments have moved far beyond bacteria. Advances in gene-editing technology have helped scientists create mouse embryos with a dash of human cells, grow brains that are a mix of rat and mouse cells, and grow mostly human organs in pigs (SN: 5/13/20; SN: 4/25/24; SN: 9/7/23). In March, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living person. The kidney had certain pig genes removed and some human genes added to improve the organ’s compatibility with the human immune system. The man was discharged from the hospital in April. He died in May from a cause unrelated to the transplant, the hospital said. (Read more.)
Just think: If he had just had an alternative to being given a kidney.
ReplyDeleteWith dialysis he might have lived for years, but never mind. The docs got their headlines.