Xenotransplantation

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    Don't think Mooslamics would go for this...
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    Genetic changes could make pig organs usable for human transplant
    Oct. 12, 2015 - The modifications prevented a human immune response to pig cells and eliminated a disease that can infect human cells.
     
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    What are they going to do next? Genetically modify babies to be born without brains so they can harvest their organs?
     
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    Uncle Ferd says dey figurin' out how to make a real Spiderman...
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    Researchers extract, sequence spider DNA from spider web
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    A weird case of genetic adaptation...
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    Virus stole poison genes from black widow spider
    Wed, 12 Oct 2016 - In a very unusual case of genetic theft, a virus has been caught with a gene that codes for the poison of black widow spiders.
     
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    Xenotransplantation, or transplantation of animal organs to humans...
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    Scientist Move Closer to Pig-human Organ Transplants
    August 11, 2017 - There’s a word that everybody should learn because in a few years it may be in almost every day use.
     

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