Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage, but there are hurdles....
Among them: A sugar in pig cells, which is foreign to the human body, causes immediate organ rejection....
The kidney for this experiment came from a gene-edited animal, engineered to eliminate that sugar
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洛杉矶时报-世界与民族
2021-10-20 00:00:00.0