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First Genetically Altered Pig Kidney Transplant Recipient Dies

  • #Medicine & healthcare
  • #Surgery and surgeons
  • #Research
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MAY 2024
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story last updated MAY 2024

The Spin

Narrative A

While more research is needed before xenotransplantation hits the public market, the months of bodily function provided to Slayman mark a historic feat. Legal and ethical factors will also be at play, but the thousands of Americans still waiting for a life-saving transplant can look forward to someday being able to opt into this medical lifeline.

Womble Bond Dickinson

Narrative B

Xenotransplants are morally abhorrent and are also dangerous to humans. Innocent animals should not be bred for the sole purpose of extracting their organs to place in human beings. Furthermore, the parasites carried by these animals could end up inserted into a patient, possibly resulting in the next deadly pandemic.

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