Current Events > Genetically engineered pig kidney transplanted in 62 year old.

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https://twitter.com/dailyloud/status/1770813621259403591?s=46&t=MclOgjiC_DZiKahxLVoZDg

PETA will have a field day with this.

A cop manufacturing facility has been born

Makeveli_lives posted...

https://twitter.com/dailyloud/status/1770813621259403591?s=46&t=MclOgjiC_DZiKahxLVoZDg

PETA will have a field day with this.

Iirc the last time they did this the guy only lived an extra six weeks. Let's see if we can do better this time

Tyranthraxus posted...

Iirc the last time they did this the guy only lived an extra six weeks. Let's see if we can do better this time

"first procedure of its kind"

"the last time they did this..."

famfam posted...

"first procedure of its kind"

"the last time they did this..."

maybe referring to incidents like these

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00853-8

famfam posted...

"first procedure of its kind"

"the last time they did this..."

The last time was a heart.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085420836/pig-heart-transplant

And it was 2 months not 6 weeks

Makeveli_lives posted...

PETA will have a field day with this.

I am .1% pig. PETA can bring it.

Can they transplant pig tail to a human

Thats disgusting. Id rather go on dialysis and wait for human kidney.

kage_53 posted...

Thats disgusting. Id rather go on dialysis and wait for human kidney.

You can't live forever on dialysis. You can live pretty long but organ wait lists are sometimes longer.

How does the human body not reject something as foreign as that?

Or does he have to take a cocktail of immune suppressants daily for the rest of his life?

Cobra1010 posted...

How does the human body not reject something as foreign as that?

Or does he have to take a cocktail of immune suppressants daily for the rest of his life?

You have to do that second part anyway. And I there's some kind of gene therapy they do to the pig that gives it a larger / more human like kidney. I think the pig basically suffers its whole life until it can be slaughtered for the kidney as a result.

Cobra1010 posted...

How does the human body not reject something as foreign as that?

Or does he have to take a cocktail of immune suppressants daily for the rest of his life?

Pigs are most like humans in a lot of ways organically.

Makeveli_lives posted...

Pigs are most like humans in a lot of ways organically.

My step father had a pig valve implanted in him. I don't think he took immunosuppressants.

mystic_belmont posted...

My step father had a pig valve implanted in him. I don't think he took immunosuppressants.

I also have a replacement valve. Worst I have to take is a child's aspirin as a blood thinner.

mystic_belmont posted...

My step father had a pig valve implanted in him. I don't think he took immunosuppressants.

Immune privilege is an evolutionary adaptation that protects vital tissues with limited regenerative capacity from collateral damage by the immune response. Classical examples include the anterior chamber of the eye and the brain. More recently, the placenta, testes and articular cartilage were found to have similar immune privilege. What all of these tissues have in common is their vital function for evolutionary fitness and a limited regenerative capacity. Immune privilege is clinically relevant, because corneal transplantation and meniscal transplantation do not require immunosuppression. The heart valves also serve a vital function and have limited regenerative capacity after damage. Moreover, experimental and clinical evidence from heart valve transplantation suggests that the heart valves are spared from alloimmune injury. Here we review this evidence and propose the concept of heart valves as immune privileged sites. This concept has important clinical implications for heart valve transplantation.

from a paper I found through a googling
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8383064/

kage_53 posted...

Thats disgusting. Id rather go on dialysis and wait for human kidney.

do you even know what dialysis does to a person?

kage_53 posted...

Thats disgusting. Id rather go on dialysis and wait for human kidney.

its so funny how many people just say "hm id rather die a painful death than get THAT" nowadays

having been on dialysis two times throughout my life due to kidney complications, I can say that the things it does not only to your body but your mental state can really mess a person up, thanks to that treatment which started at 8 years old, I developed a really bad sense of self worth, I was weaker than others so I spent a lot of time by myself being home schooled, by the time I got the first kidney I further withdrew into myself because I didn't understand how people act with one another which only further lowered my sense of self worth which eventually grew into self resentment, apathy and depression, I had stopped taking my medication as directed because of it and the kidney rejected, so back on dialysis I went, while on it I had to continue going to school and working a job and trying to graduate high school, I managed to do all that yet my sense of self worth was in tatters, I hated myself, I hated how dumb I was, it got even worse because my mom also started having problems with her kidneys and yet despite her also doing the treatment she didn't live long enough to get on a list where as my worthless ass did get on a list and get a transplant and to this day that kidney is still with me going strong, my dumb self hating ass was given a third lease on life while someone who truly truly deserved it died for nothing at age 35. Even now I hate myself I'd gladly die back then if it meant she'd get one instead yet despite that loathing, that self hatred, that constant regret whenever I think of this I won't go full despair, I can't, even if my life isn't amazing I'll see it through to it's natural end no matter what.

Dialysis is a temporary measure that's never meant to last more than a few year , hopefully this rather experimental transplant bodes success for the patient and the results and observation can further help people not be on that shit for longer than they should be

My warped mind's first thought upon hearing about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2cl1P5HxR0

metralo posted...

its so funny how many people just say "hm id rather die a painful death than get THAT" nowadays

If you want to be a chimera go for it, I aint stopping you -_-

If this can help save lives that can only be a good thing.

One more step towards immortality

Did they keep the pig alive out of respect or harvest both kidneys?

Surprised this topic is still going honestly.