Sunday, June 28, 2026

Pig-to-human kidney transplant clinical trials to start in Japan

 https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260629_03/ 

This isn't like something from The Island of Dr. Moreau or Dr. Frankenstein

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/first-genetically-edited-pig-kidney-transplanted-human

Animal organs for human transplantation: how close are we? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1312205/ 

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/xenotransplantation 

Will pigs solve the organ crisis? The future of animal-to-human transplants https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03794-2

https://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/publication/animal-to-human-transplants-the-ethics-of-xenotransplantation/ 


Pig organs partially revived in dead animals — researchers are stunned https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02112-0 Scientists warn that the findings aren’t yet clinically relevant but say the research raises ethical questions about the definition of death. 

https://www.science.org/content/article/pig-organs-revived-1-hour-after-animals-death

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62406350 

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/wff7ej/pig_organs_partially_revived_in_dead_animals/ 


At some point will monsters be made, or some type of a PIG world?