Breakthrough in xenotransplantation of organs?
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With genes editing and clones, scientists from the cells of pigs were able to remove the genes of probably for organ-sensor’s sensible retroviruses
Scientists with the conglers Crispr-CAS9 may have succeeded in gaining a breakthrough of people from pigs from pigs. Pigs are considered to be particularly suitable for winning them organs for xenotransplantation, just because of the similar coarse. However, there is a coarse problem because the human body not only abbed out foreign organs, but because it gives numerous endogenous retroviruses (PERV) in the genome of pigs, which can emigrate in a transplantation into human cells and zoonoseless can. There is a risk of immunodeficiency and tumor formation, but is uncertain how high the risk is really or if it is present at all.