A medical breakthrough that could shorten the queue for transplant surgeries in general and kidney transplants in particular after US doctors were able to "grow" a kidney in a genetically engineered pig, and once it reached the desired size, it was transplanted as part of an experiment - in a person with brain death.
Halachic is OK, Photo: Moran Maayan - Ginny
The procedure performed at a New York hospital included a genetically engineered pig so that the molecules in the pig's cells would not stimulate the human immune system to resist them - which actually happened whenever a similar procedure was attempted - which necessitated massive use of antipsychotics and in most cases failed.
Tests performed by doctors after the kidney transplant showed "completely normal results," said
Dr. Robert Montgomery
, the surgeon in charge of the complicated procedure. , As we usually see in the case of transplants of an organ that does not come from a human being.
The pig by the way, is also sized and engineered in the US.
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