A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified pig liver, say the team that conducted the surgery. The pig organ filtered the man’s blood for a few days while he waited for a human liver transplant, they say.
The foreskin research is just the tip of the spear for this promising, if sensitive, area. Even if they make errors and have to retract, there’s nothing stopping what’s coming.
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