Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Scientists attach pig's kidney to human body in breakthrough transplant

 https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/scientists-attach-pig-kidney-to-human-body-1866834-2021-10-20

 Scientists temporarily attached a pig's kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.

 Surgeons attached the pig kidney to a pair of large blood vessels outside the body of a deceased recipient so they could observe it for two days. The kidney did what it was supposed to do — filter waste and produce urine — and didn't trigger rejection.

1 comment:

  1. On a dead body. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/20/pig-kidney-animal-human-transplant-us-trial

    In other news, a new cure for cancer was tested on a dead person, and it had no side effects.

    ReplyDelete

ANONYMOUS COMMENTS WILL NOT BE POSTED!
please use either your real name or a pseudonym.