Transplanting Chimpanzees for Transplantation

Keith rims my really is one of the most kind of colorful Historical figures in transplant, you know this hawkeye pierce type character. He actually did 13 chimpanzee transplants And quite a few others did some too and they had a lot of success like you said. From an immunologic standpoint if we were still using primates, it'd probably be working now. CRISPR-Cas9 allowed us to do genetic engineering and eliminate that one three gal barrier for pigs. The FDA has not done that yet, but what they did was they approved the pig to be used for things like diet There's a small number of people who have antibodies against alpha gal So they got it approved in