First human to receive transplanted pig kidney dies
First human to receive transplanted pig kidney dies
A man with end-stage renal disease who earlier this year became the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig has died, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said.
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They tried this with a monkey kidney too. Xeno transplants are hard because of hormones differences (I guess the genetic modification here was supposed to help). We just know so so little in medicine and biology in general.
And we're going to continue making babysteps towards medicine and biology so long as we've got bible thumpers going around shaming people for "playing god" when they turn around telling us that all we need are essential oils and ignore our problems.