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Surgeons transplant pig kidney into a patient
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#43It's impossible for me to see this as anything but an amazing development.
But the sentient-pig SF horror genre pretty much writes itself.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This is confusing, because one possible reading of this is that the procedure works only on Black people. Thats not a reasonable interpretation. They're just saying that the recipient is a member of a group with higher rates of kidney disease, and therefore the transpant techniques may particularly (but not solely) benefit that group. The rest of your comment is unnecessary supposition.
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Syntactically, yes it is
That's a very tenuous reason to try to start a dumb tangential flamewar.
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#45It doesn’t mention the most important thing. Does he have to take immunosuppressants? If so is it for the rest of his life.
Anyone who gets a transplant needs to take immunosuppressants for the rest of their life (except some older patients with liver transplants many years post transplant).
In general for many patients, immunosuppressants have relatively little impact on daily life.
Source: liver transplant recipient.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Syntactically, yes it is That's a very tenuous reason to try to start a dumb tangential flamewar.
I'm saying that, even on a grammatical level, it's visible that the author must have had a motive for putting the sentence there that was somehow extraneous to and different from the motive for putting the other sentences there.
Noticing that sort of thing is a useful skill in the critical reception of media. That's why I pointed it out.
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#47If successful, this is great. However, I would like to see how long this lasts. I can recall seeing similar stories with either a rejection at the end, or some negative outcome for the patient.
The hearts lasted weeks, about 2 months. The test primate for the kidney lasted 2 years, which would be impressive.
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#48It's impossible for me to see this as anything but an amazing development. But the sentient-pig SF horror genre pretty much writes itself.
… does it? It’s a kidney, not a brain. Brain transplants from a pig seem like a pretty obviously bad idea.
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#49It's impossible for me to see this as anything but an amazing development. But the sentient-pig SF horror genre pretty much writes itself.
Quite amazing! Doubtful we'll see any Animal Farm animals. The modified genes are for mostly endothelial modifications.
>> The Yucatan miniature pig breed was chosen because its organ sizes are comparable to human organs28. In addition, pigs with OO blood type were selected to eliminate ABO blood-type incompatibilities29.
>> The pigs were engineered to carry 69 genomic edits, using the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9)-mediated nonhomologous end joining and homology-directed repair30,31, and recombinase-mediated cassette exchange.
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#50quite impressive, there must have been an insane amount of work that went into this the forecasting market should capitalize on if someone dies who is it or who dies first? this guy or the neuralink patient
Alternatively, let's wish the best to both of them.