A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney : science

[+] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please don't bring pigs down to their level.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pigs are awesome, and delicious! Clearly better than us.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hear long pork is delicious too so I'm not sure they win that round (having only eaten the regular pork)

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know, I've seen people and they don't look delicious.

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

wild. hope this one proves more successful in the long term than the previous attempts.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Past attempts were, technically, successful. The problem with the patients was that they were already on the edge of death. A new human kidney might not have saved them either.

Not that these things don’t still need some work, which is why they’re still experimental.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

See? The police aren't that bad /s

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

What a selfless pig, donating one of its kidneys.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Are they counting all pig organ transplants or just pig kidney transplants because I have some parts I would like to add