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Pig organs for transplant patients

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Is It Safe to Transplant a Pig Kidney in Living People?

Doctor jamie locke says she's ready to try pig kidney transplants in living people too. After the success of the operation on mister Parsons, we also did not see pig cells in mister parsons blood. And that's really import because that can cause something called grap versus host disease. So again, just another added piece of data that really reassures us that it's safe to move this into living persons.

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