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As someone who will need a heart transplant, holy fucking shit fuck yes, please let this be more than just a cool story and help me live too.
As an American, I already know the cost of this procedure is going to be in the millions. Insurance companies will moan and cry about experimental treatments not covered for at least a decade.
Only the rich and powerful will be paying out of pocket to extend their lives with genetically modified pig hearts.
Well, then fingers crossed I win the lottery
Utilization of a new perfusion method commercialized by the Swedish company XVIVO for storing and treating the donor heart after it’s harvested. The heart was bathed in a special blend of hormones, electrolytes, nutrients, and dissolved cocaine, all of which contribute to minimizing ischemic injury and shown in prior studies to significantly extend xenograft viability.
cocaine
Just thought I’d highlight that
Nice
Science is amazing
Gotta keep those muscle enzymes high or something
- Tom Segura
And they is bad…
/j
Is the pig okay?
Little dry.
Needs garlic.
holy shit! i never thought id see it, but were damn close!
When in the pig life cycle are the genes edited? Is this in the embryo or later on? Surely not after birth?
The heart xenotransplant was finally performed by the UMMC cardiac transplantation team on January 7, 2022. That morning, the heart was removed from a 1-year-old, 240-pound genetically modified pig supplied by regenerative medicine company Revivicor.
That doesn’t answer the question….
Quite. My guess is in vitro fertilisation, followed by gene editing of the fertilised egg, before implantation. Then you can breed a population of GM pigs suitable for organ transplants.
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