Genmod pig, transplant its heart to human

sonhouse

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11 Jan 22

sonhouse

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11 Jan 22

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/10/health/genetically-modified-pig-heart-transplant/index.html

Good for the man, he is doing well, not so good for the pig.....

Contenchess

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11 Jan 22

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Really gross but interesting and I hope he survives.

Wouldn't a primate heart be a better option?
(Gorilla?)

sonhouse

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11 Jan 22

@Contenchess
Gorillas are endangered so even if they ran through the entire gorilla population to get hearts, they would run out and still need millions more so that wouldn't be a great option.
How many pigs are there? Millions I suspect.

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11 Jan 22

@sonhouse

True.

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11 Jan 22

@sonhouse said
@Contenchess
Gorillas are endangered so even if they ran through the entire gorilla population to get hearts, they would run out and still need millions more so that wouldn't be a great option.
How many pigs are there? Millions I suspect.

last year there lived about 750 million pigs in agriculture...

But in fact we face a moral problem: The heart was from a specifically genetically engineered pig...so how much effort will be put in to treat how mayn people, while at the same time we could with the smae amount of money and time save more popel from hunger and avoidable diseases?

sonhouse

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11 Jan 22

@Ponderable
Which would remove the need for heart transplants, eh?