The data is pretty bad, but it’s most ethical to try on people who don’t have better options
Comment on First human to receive transplanted pig kidney dies
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 month agoThat’s the problem with using experimental procedures on terminally ill patients. The data is crap because you sont know if the procedure killed them or if they just were never gonna make it. .
Dippy@beehaw.org 1 month ago
match@pawb.social 1 month ago
Well, you know it didn’t save them
gregorum@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Although, considering all of the other health problems that this patient had, we don’t know that, if this were his only problem, it wouldn’t have.
lazyViking@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I guess we found out if it was very immediately killing them, and post-mortem, could probably see (a little bit), how much the kidney was to blame
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 1 month ago
True, but there’s not many healthy people lining up to get pig organs implanted so this is realistically the best human data we can get until it’s proven to work.