A man with end-stage renal disease who earlier this year became the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig has died, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said.

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  • BakerBagel
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    1 month ago

    That’s the problem with using experimental procedures on terminally ill patients. The data is crap because you sont know if the procedure killed them or if they just were never gonna make it. .

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      True, but there’s not many healthy people lining up to get pig organs implanted so this is realistically the best human data we can get until it’s proven to work.

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      The data is pretty bad, but it’s most ethical to try on people who don’t have better options

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        Although, considering all of the other health problems that this patient had, we don’t know that, if this were his only problem, it wouldn’t have.

        In other words: it might have, if not for everything else wrong with this guy.

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      I guess we found out if it was very immediately killing them, and post-mortem, could probably see (a little bit), how much the kidney was to blame