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2022-01-21 Science & Technology
Surgeons successfully transplant two PIG KIDNEYS into a brain dead human, marking a 'significant step' in the decades-long quest to use animal organs for life-saving transplants
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Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 a brain dead human

Biden has kidney problems?
Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-21 00:04||   2022-01-21 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 He could use one of these...

Elon Musk's Neuralink could soon implant its brain chip in HUMANS: Firm wants to hire a director to oversee its 'first clinical trial participants'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-21 00:41||   2022-01-21 00:41|| Front Page Top

#3 New expanded term for transgender.
Posted by Dale 2022-01-21 04:02||   2022-01-21 04:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I could transplant anything into a brain dead human. It's not like he's getting up to tell me he feels ill.

Call me when you transplant a clever pig's brain into a liberal brain dead human.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-01-21 04:16||   2022-01-21 04:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Will his diet now be limited to corn ?
Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-21 06:31||   2022-01-21 06:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Acorns, B. Think Iberico ham.
Posted by no mo uro 2022-01-21 06:54||   2022-01-21 06:54|| Front Page Top

#7 A spiraling sprout near the caudal (coccygeal) vertebrae above the coccyx should impress researchers and surgeons alike.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-21 07:04||   2022-01-21 07:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Wow, exactly what did the next-of-kin sign to permit that? Imagine how useful future brain dead people can be for experimentation, and what future definitions of "brain dead" might be!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-01-21 12:29||   2022-01-21 12:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, it's ethically fraught, but I have less trouble with it than with fetal stem cells derived from abortions. YMMV.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-21 12:31||   2022-01-21 12:31|| Front Page Top

#10 I have less trouble with it

Or organ harvesting.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-21 17:56||   2022-01-21 17:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Call me when you transplant a clever pig's brain into a liberal

Su-eeee! Get'em, boy porcine-person! Them thar truffles is white supremacists!

Under that oak tree yonder: domestic terrorists! Git!
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-21 22:32||   2022-01-21 22:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Why isn't this considered torture? The left tries to hijack the meaning of way too many words already, such as gay, hate, love, marriage, racism, bullying, etc. Now they want to redefine death to suit their needs -- the Culture of Death indeed.
Posted by Slats Lover of the Ostrogoths6701 2022-01-21 22:57||   2022-01-21 22:57|| Front Page Top

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