MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agoPig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplantsabcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1147arrow-down1external-linkPig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplantsabcnews.go.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
New York surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally
minus-squarethepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoI’m betting that we’ll be able to clone organs before this is ever a truly viable option. It might be used as a stop gap until an organ is grown, but I seriously doubt it’ll be a main course of treatment.
minus-squareUFO@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoI think you’re right but I also bet there is overlapping technology between the two.
I’m betting that we’ll be able to clone organs before this is ever a truly viable option. It might be used as a stop gap until an organ is grown, but I seriously doubt it’ll be a main course of treatment.
I think you’re right but I also bet there is overlapping technology between the two.