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That's more complicated than it might seem at first glance. AIUI, the modification to the pig was "just" "let's remove the genes that result in this one sugar
by rincebrain 5y ago
That's more complicated than it might seem at first glance.
AIUI, the modification to the pig was "just" "let's remove the genes that result in this one sugar that lots of animals but not some apes and humans have" (which is also the thing that you develop an allergy to if you're bitten by the Lone Star tick, incidentally), not "let's stick a bunch of human genes in", so _these_ organs wouldn't have much tinge for cannibalism unless you ate them post-transplant. (This article doesn't, but another one mentions one of the original intended use cases for the GalSafe pigs _is_ for eating, including by people who have the Alpha-Gal allergy.)
They're _also_ working on pigs with one or more human genes spliced in for better compatibility, but that's not these.