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The Future of Transplanting Pig Organs in People
After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...
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First pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person, but we're still a long way from solving organ shortages
These pig hearts had ten genome edits to make them ... The treatment, known as Casgevy, uses CRISPR/Cas-9 to edit the patient's own blood (bone-marrow) stem cells. By disrupting the unhealthy ...