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It's not an ordinary pig kidney, but a "humanized" kidney. The pigs were engineered to produced "human" proteins. That way, the body of the human recipient doesn't perceive it as a "cross-species" transplant.
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) October 23, 2021
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Doctors in New York transplanted a gene-edited pig's kidney into a human for the first time ever in the U.S. https://t.co/8GajcMSOxW pic.twitter.com/GOSkf2FuiL
— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) October 21, 2021
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