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porcine

adjective as in pertaining to pigs

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Children who cannot have porcine gelatine in medical products will be offered an injection.

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Pigs can carry viruses such as porcine cytomegalovirus, the one that was detected in Bennett, the person who received a pig heart transplant in 2022.

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For example, the company Revivicor, which is owned by United Therapeutics and provided the pigs used in the University of Maryland transplants, leaves the porcine viral genes intact.

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Up to 65% of the cells in these organs were human, indicating the stem cells had spawned kidney cells in their porcine surroundings.

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First, what pig to use: Some have up to 10 genetic changes but Montgomery is betting one is enough — removal of a single porcine gene that triggers an immediate immune attack.

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