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ArticleMedicine Guanlan
According to the latest industry reports, the New York University Langone Medical Center team achieved a historic breakthrough: They transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney through a blood vessel in the thigh to a brain-dead volunteer
At present, the gap in organ transplantation is a global problem
It is reported that the transplanted kidney comes from a genetically edited pig, which greatly reduces the possibility of organ rejection by the human body
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It is reported that Dr.
Of course, most organ transplant experts are optimistic, believing that this will change the future of organ transplantation
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Compared with primates, pigs have advantages in organ harvesting: they are easier to raise, mature faster, and can grow to adult size within six months
Thanks to the combination of two new technologies, gene editing and cloning, genetically modified pig organs have now been produced
Pigs have always been the latest research focus to solve the problem of organ shortages, but there are also some obstacles: the sugar from pig cells is foreign to the human body and will immediately cause organ rejection
Dr.
It should be pointed out that the relevant papers have not yet been officially published in the paper journals
Reference materials:
[1]In a First, Surgeons Attached a Pig Kidney to a Human — and It Worked.
[2] Pig-to-human organ transplants a step closer after new test .
