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Pig-to-Human Transplants On Their Way

Posted by timothy on from the oink-oink dept.

cscx writes: "From the folks who brought you Dolly the cloned sheep, come genetically modified cloned pigs which they claim may eventually be able to donate their organs to humans for transplant usage. Who knows, we may make that mark on your driver's license obsolete after all."

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  1. question for the jewish folks by Afrosheen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is this gonna be kosher or not?

  2. Dual use pigs. by coryboehne · · Score: 4, Funny

    MMMM, Bacon.... drool :p~~~~

    Now after I block my veins with fatty deposits, and destroy my heart, the same pig can now give me a new heart? Awesome....

    1. Re:Dual use pigs. by unicron · · Score: 3, Funny

      Make the pig pay for your mistakes, that's real friggin compassionate, man.

      =)

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    2. Re:Dual use pigs. by Frank+of+Earth · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ok.. I have to quote the Simpson's episode:

      Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
      Lisa: No.
      Homer: Ham?
      Lisa: No!
      Homer: Pork chops?
      Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal!
      Homer: Heh heh heh... ooh... yeah... right, Lisa. A wonderful... magical animal.

      Courtesy of http://www.kerp.net/homer.html

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  3. Re:organs by rbgaynor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unless, of course, you are the pig...

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  4. Remember the mammoth... by Scaebor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Forget the pigs, what I'm waiting for that mammoth to be cloned. I may need a backpack to carry around my heart, but by God they made 'em good back in the old days.

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  5. Pigs by infornogr · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can understand the medical benefits of taking organs from pigs and putting them into people... but if we keep doing this... won't we eventually run out of politicians and CEOs?