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New Zealand firm aims to supply pig kidneys for human transplant
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New Zealand firm aims to supply pig kidneys for human transplant
Wednesday 17 July 2024, 02:45 PM

Research company NZeno is working on the concept of transplanting organs from genetically edited Auckland Island pigs into humans [Image: Wikimedia Commons]
Viewers of Shortland Street were introduced to xenotransplantation at the fictional hospital earlier this month.
Long-time readers of New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa may be familiar with xenotransplantation research being carried out by the late diabetes researcher Sir Robert Elliot. Martin Johnston updates that story
We hope maybe we would have some data to get into human trials
New Zealand-based researchers who encapsulated pig cells to treat type 1 diabetics
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