First-of-Its-Kind Procedure Uses Pig Liver to Filter Human's Blood
Briefly

'This may be a big step forward...Pig livers, he says, could save lives by providing a temporary method of filtering blood until a person's own liver heals or a human organ donor is found.'
'The genome edits helped prevent the recipients' immune system from attacking and rejecting the organs.'
''Most of these edits eliminated pig viruses that were embedded in the animals' genome and disguised cell-surface proteins to make them more humanlike.'
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