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A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney (www.wired.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.