Team in China aims to start trial of pig organs in humans this year

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Several groups are vying to be the first to transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into people as part of a clinical trial. One team in China aims to start a trial this year using genome-edited pig skin for grafts

Several groups are vying to be the first to transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into people as part of a clinical trial. One of the contenders is a team in China that last year was the first to complete a human trial of CRISPR genome-edited pig skin grafts.

“We plan to do heart or liver xenotransplants within 2022, but we do not have a specific timetable at this moment,” Lijin Zou at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University in China told …App + Web

 

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Chinese are very funny, they're indeed copying machines. I'm still waiting for someone to mention just one original innovation from China, just one! Why China has zero innovation? The answer is, fascism.

Is this ethical? How much human DNA is ok before we consider them human in an organ harvested pig? Who is answering these questions? Why is there no debate and news coverage on ethics?

So mutant half man half pig android army

'I'll accept a life-saving organ from only organic pigs', says a special person with far too much money and not enough sense.

This doesn’t sound kosher 🤷‍♂️

Pigoons...? MargaretAtwood

Nope

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