If you can use livestock it is much better, and fresh, and a match. However the heart didn't take. Person died 2 months later and probably in agony. I am not sure about others from pigs like lungs etc.
But again and also the stemcells for 3d printing. Easier from livestock. If it matches. 3d printing has recreated almost everything in the body. But it is nowhere near being a standard. The costs.
With organs they need a donor. On death most organs harvested aren't used. They're often used for dissection and other experimentation. Few make donors in time, but they do in tiny margins. The government owns you, in most medicine today, unless you opt out. Literally modern graverobbers. It is how Western surgery was created. But there is a huge illegal trade of supposed donors.
So instead it is looking for newer methods, pig is one of the closest matches. It is livestock and abundant, and being used increasingly in transplants. I am not sure if it is direct or tweaked by 3d printing. Not reading much more into it until it moves past the current human trials. It is still largely experimental stages.
Modified in the article. 3d printed off stemcells. Labgrown. Lungs I believe have taken and perhaps others like maybe even kidneys etc?
Ethically not everybody will want pig donors either.
If you can use livestock it is much better, and fresh, and a match. However the heart didn't take. Person died 2 months later and probably in agony. I am not sure about others from pigs like lungs etc.
But again and also the stemcells for 3d printing. Easier from livestock. If it matches. 3d printing has recreated almost everything in the body. But it is nowhere near being a standard. The costs.
With organs they need a donor. On death most organs harvested aren't used. They're often used for dissection and other experimentation. Few make donors in time, but they do in tiny margins. The government owns you, in most medicine today, unless you opt out. Literally modern graverobbers. It is how Western surgery was created. But there is a huge illegal trade of supposed donors.
So instead it is looking for newer methods, pig is one of the closest matches. It is livestock and abundant, and being used increasingly in transplants. I am not sure if it is direct or tweaked by 3d printing. Not reading much more into it until it moves past the current human trials. It is still largely experimental stages.
Modified in the article. 3d printed off stemcells. Labgrown. Lungs I believe have taken and perhaps others like maybe even kidneys etc?
Ethically not everybody will want pig donors either.