The following report is by The Trends Journal:
Pigs have long been seen as possible incubators of human organs to use in transplants. Experiments at California’s Altos Labs have moved science closer to that goal.
Researchers there grew human kidney cells in pig embryos, the first time human organ cells have been grown in another kind of animal.
Other scientists have grown human muscle and blood vessel cells in pigs but never organ tissue.
Pigs’ biology is similar enough to humans to make them candidates for organ swaps. In trials, pig hearts and kidneys have been transplanted into brain-dead and terminally ill people. The replanted organs functioned but recipients would have required lifetime treatment with drugs to suppress organ rejection.
In contrast, human organs such as kidneys could be seeded in pigs with a person’s stem cells. Once grown, the organs could be transplanted into the person with no worries about rejection—the person’s body would see the new organ as one of its own.
Before implanting the human cells in pig embryos’ kidneys, the researchers genetically altered the human stem cells to outcompete the pigs’ cells so the kidney tissue would establish itself and not be overwhelmed by the pigs’ biological systems.
The experiments lasted only a month to prove that human organ cells could be grown in pigs.
Now new tests will be needed to see if human kidneys can be grown to maturity in pigs and to see if the human kidneys might contain pigs’ cells that would trigger rejection.
TRENDPOST: Ethical issues abound in this work, beyond the concern of raising pigs for the purpose of killing them if someone needs a kidney.
Just as pigs’ cells could be incorporated into human kidneys, the scientists found some human cells had migrated into the pig embryos’ brains and spinal cords. That could alter their sensory or mental functions. No human genetic material was found in the embryos’ developing reproductive systems, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen.
Human stem cells would have to undergo additional editing to ensure that pigs and humans aren’t able to swap cells and genetic material, the researchers said.
In parallel with this work, others are looking for ways to grow organs from stem cells in laboratory containers resembling artificial wombs. That approach presents both fewer ethical challenges and genetic dangers than enlisting pigs to grow humans’ replacement organs.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
At the end of the day, these continued experiments and mad scientist affairs are rooted in man playing God and trying to be its own creator, and eventually make man in their image and likeness.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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This is going to end in disaster! Leave God’s creation alone, it’s perfect as is. What’s next, splicing pig DNA with tarantula DNA? Creating a half man half fish chimera?
WHO KNOWS WHAT THE HELL THESE PSYCHO SCIENTISTS AND THEIR POLITICAL FUNDERS ARE DOING BEHIND THE SCENES. ITS PROBABLY THE WORST HORROR SHOW YOU CAN IMAGINE.
Sir, please refrain from cussing on this page. I understand you’re angry and I’m angry too, but please don’t use profanity. Repent.
cussing is a matter of opinion. Are you a DEM who wants to censor me? Mr. Morality. Go take a hike……………sir. You see what I have seen in my years of rescue work, not activism whackos screaming with signs, but getting your hands dirty DOING THE WORK AND SEEING THE TRUE NATURE OF THE FILTH CALLED HOMO SAPIENS.. YOU, SIR, HAVE NO PASSION FOR ANYTHING APPARENTLY. YOU ARE CONTENT WITH THE WORLD AS IT IS AND COULD CARE LESS, SIR.
GO PREACH ON ANOTHER PLATFORM. YOU SHOULD BE MAKING CONSTRUCTIVE COMMENTS NOT ACTING LIKE THE SCHOOL MONITOR.
ALWAYS THE ANIMALS SUFFER FROM HUMAN INTERFERENCE AND EXPLOITATION OF THEIR LIVES. I AM ASHAMED AND DISGUSTED TO HAVE BEEN BORN HUMAN.
YOU WANT TO GROW KIDNEYS CELLS, STICK THEM IN YOUR WIFE AND KIDS INSTEAD OF INNOCENT ANIMALS. 50,000 PLUS SPECIES HAVE VANISHED FROM THE EARTH SINCE THE HOMO SAPIENS PANDEMIC ON EARTH BEGAN. MAYBE THE COVID DEATH SHOTS ARE A GOOD THING. MAYBE HUMANS DO NEED TO BE WIPED FROM THE EARTH. STARTING TO CHANGE MY THINKING AFTER ALL THE ABUSE OF INNOCENT ANIMALS I HAVE SEEN IN A 23 YEAR RESCUE CAREER. EVERY ANIMAL PROBLEM IS A HUMAN PROBLEM. ONLY HUMAN FILTH CAN MAKE OTHER SPECIES EXTINCT. WE DO NOT DESERVE TO LIVE ON THIS WORLD. WE ARE AN INCURABLE DISEASE
I read this one national geographic magazine article about the development of a human kidney using pig tissue (it was written around early 2010s & 2000s).
Thats disgusting!