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Article: Gene-edited pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead patient for first time (STAT News). “In a milestone for the newly resurgent field of xenotransplantation, a 39-year-old brain-dead person in China has become the first human to receive a lung from a pig. With consent from the person’s family, researchers took the organ from a CRISPR’d pig, trimmed it, and stitched it into their chest, where it remained for nine days.”
Article: Genetic testing of critically ill adults can yield surprises—and reveal disparities in treatment of Black patients (Science). “Nearly one-quarter of the adult patients had genetic diagnoses pertinent to their symptoms in the ICU, the researchers found—and half of those people had not previously been aware of these genetic disorders. The team also found Black patients were far less likely than white patients to receive these personalized diagnoses before or during their ICU stay.”
Article: Finding Faster, Cheaper Ways to Get to Bacon (The Wall Street Journal). “Livestock companies such as Smithfield Foods are breeding generations of pigs with new traits.”
Article: How decades-old frozen embryos are changing the shape of families (MIT Technology Review). The “world’s oldest baby” was born from an “adopted” embryo created in 1994.
Article: The quest to create gene-edited babies gets a reboot (NPR). “A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world’s first gene-edited babies…Fast forward to today: Mainstream scientific organizations are encouraging very careful basic research to explore gene editing and human reproduction.”
Opinion: World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided (The Conversation). “I should know, because I discovered the SRY gene on the human Y chromosome in 1990. For 35 years, I have been researching it and other genes required for testis development.”
Opinion: The new era of individualized medicine requires a ‘genetic surgery’ system (STAT News). “The FDA’s current approach doesn’t work for children like my daughter with rare diseases and little time.”
Opinion: Japan’s green light for making human embryos from stem cells takes us into uncharted territory (STAT News). “More countries will surely follow, raising critical questions.”
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