Apart from jokes about transplanting pig brains into brain-dead politicians to make them minimally sane, I don't see such news as something bad.
If a pig liver could help to temporarily support someone life in absence of insanely expensive and still rare blood-cleaning machine or black-market donor liver and give time to find proper and ethically acceptable donor, then why not?
Taking in account that even human liver transplant require shutting down patient immune system turning one into permanent suffering source of wealth for BigPharma, some pig transplants that will turn humans into half-pigs is definitely not something from close future we should care about. And it is definitely better than slaughtering other people in far away countries for donor organs.
If pig liver could be useful for humans in addition to fried liver cutlet or making pet food, that's not that bad. Even ethically it is nowhere near at human organ trafficking.
Or it is assumed that there should be some disgust induced because pigs are not cosher for some tribes?
Replacement of failed organs is far from ideal thing. I'm not shure we will have a techology of growing/replicating ideal new replacement organ from same patient cells in foreseeable future, especially taking in account BigPharma profits from supportive treatment after transplantation, which will not be necessary in case of native replacement. Proper and guaranteed non-invasive curing/restoring of failed organs even less probable in modern world.
But what happens when they excel in this? I mean, now it's external liver. Then they will find ways for an internal implant, then kidneys perhaps. Then before you know it we have half pig men walking around or maybe they end up implanting a human brain in a pig body.
If only they put 5% of that research money into proper diet and preserving people's functioning livers.
Apart from jokes about transplanting pig brains into brain-dead politicians to make them minimally sane, I don't see such news as something bad.
If a pig liver could help to temporarily support someone life in absence of insanely expensive and still rare blood-cleaning machine or black-market donor liver and give time to find proper and ethically acceptable donor, then why not?
Taking in account that even human liver transplant require shutting down patient immune system turning one into permanent suffering source of wealth for BigPharma, some pig transplants that will turn humans into half-pigs is definitely not something from close future we should care about. And it is definitely better than slaughtering other people in far away countries for donor organs.
If pig liver could be useful for humans in addition to fried liver cutlet or making pet food, that's not that bad. Even ethically it is nowhere near at human organ trafficking.
Or it is assumed that there should be some disgust induced because pigs are not cosher for some tribes?
Replacement of failed organs is far from ideal thing. I'm not shure we will have a techology of growing/replicating ideal new replacement organ from same patient cells in foreseeable future, especially taking in account BigPharma profits from supportive treatment after transplantation, which will not be necessary in case of native replacement. Proper and guaranteed non-invasive curing/restoring of failed organs even less probable in modern world.
But what happens when they excel in this? I mean, now it's external liver. Then they will find ways for an internal implant, then kidneys perhaps. Then before you know it we have half pig men walking around or maybe they end up implanting a human brain in a pig body.
If only they put 5% of that research money into proper diet and preserving people's functioning livers.
They have already tried implanting a pig heart in a human. It didn’t turn out well
https://communities.win/c/ConsumeProduct/p/141YDtobYc/consume-pig-heart/c
For now.. but what happens 50 years from now with more advancements and attempts? That is, if society continues to function the same way it does now.