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Anonymous Coward User ID: 71908685 Philippines 08/23/2019 05:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Recently, a Chinese startup named Qihan Biotech raised $20 million to develop replacement organs for humans. The smallish deal would hardly have rated a headline, except for the fact that the Hangzhou-based gene-editing company is aiming to grow those organs in pigs and other animals. If successful, such transplants could well transform medicine. And, thanks to a unique confluence of need, money, timing and culture, China is poised to lead the way in developing them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77944999 The history of using animal tissues to replace damaged or diseased human tissues, known as xenotransplantation, dates back at least to 16th century Europe. Science-based efforts gathered momentum in the 19th century, but stalled out as practitioners and patients discovered how strongly the human body rejects foreign organs. Medicine achieved a breakthrough only in the mid-20th century with the advent of immuno-suppressing drugs. Xenotransplantation has since become a recognized branch of medicine. Heart valves from pigs, for instance, are commonly used to replace faulty human ones. However, transplanting a complete, functioning animal organ such as a heart presents far more formidable barriers, the most crucial being the need to suppress or fool the human body's immune response. China's scientists have become world leaders in editing the pig genome to do just that. The hope is to produce organs that can help people with a range of illnesses, from heart disease to blindness. [link to www.bloomberg.com (secure)] Less than 50% why not just build an artificial womb/incubation chamber to sort out the genes/dna/structure =organs suppressing the immune system just to install pig/foreign organs sounds like mickey mouse science~ |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77816916 United Kingdom 08/23/2019 05:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think if you can use a pig to clone an organ which is your genetic tissue , then game changed for transplant futures we used porcine valves for long enough in valvular replacement surgery and we used them as they were similar enough to control host reactions and not cause catastrophic rejection and surgery failure of course the muslims won't be able to have transplants from such sources but , their choice I suppose :) they can do their own research with all their brilliant scientists on an 'acceptable' source for them goats beware! |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77944999 Poland 08/23/2019 05:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Recently, a Chinese startup named Qihan Biotech raised $20 million to develop replacement organs for humans. The smallish deal would hardly have rated a headline, except for the fact that the Hangzhou-based gene-editing company is aiming to grow those organs in pigs and other animals. If successful, such transplants could well transform medicine. And, thanks to a unique confluence of need, money, timing and culture, China is poised to lead the way in developing them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77944999 The history of using animal tissues to replace damaged or diseased human tissues, known as xenotransplantation, dates back at least to 16th century Europe. Science-based efforts gathered momentum in the 19th century, but stalled out as practitioners and patients discovered how strongly the human body rejects foreign organs. Medicine achieved a breakthrough only in the mid-20th century with the advent of immuno-suppressing drugs. Xenotransplantation has since become a recognized branch of medicine. Heart valves from pigs, for instance, are commonly used to replace faulty human ones. However, transplanting a complete, functioning animal organ such as a heart presents far more formidable barriers, the most crucial being the need to suppress or fool the human body's immune response. China's scientists have become world leaders in editing the pig genome to do just that. The hope is to produce organs that can help people with a range of illnesses, from heart disease to blindness. [link to www.bloomberg.com (secure)] Less than 50% why not just build an artificial womb/incubation chamber to sort out the genes/dna/structure =organs suppressing the immune system just to install pig/foreign organs sounds like mickey mouse science~ That's the whole point. They are editing animal DNA to make it more acceptable by our immune system so that we can use animal organs without them being rejected so this would also limit how much suppression drugs are needed. They will probably get to the artificial womb/incubation chamber one day, but maybe it's not so easy now, the organs need to grow and get all the nutrients, and maybe growing them inside of a living animal is the best way to do it now? I doubt they didn't think of it. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77944999 Poland 08/23/2019 06:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You know damn good and well that the first "organ" to be grown will be giant dicks. The second will be giant tits followed by big asses. FFS, did you read the article? They're not editing human DNA, they're growing organs inside of animals in order to transplant it to sick patients awaiting transplants. If you seriously think growing and transplanting giant dicks is the top of human priorities before live-saving organ transplants then something's wrong with you. Unless you're obsessing about giant dicks 24/7 in which case your interest is understandable. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77305671 Germany 08/23/2019 06:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You know damn good and well that the first "organ" to be grown will be giant dicks. The second will be giant tits followed by big asses. FFS, did you read the article? They're not editing human DNA, they're growing organs inside of animals in order to transplant it to sick patients awaiting transplants. If you seriously think growing and transplanting giant dicks is the top of human priorities before live-saving organ transplants then something's wrong with you. Unless you're obsessing about giant dicks 24/7 in which case your interest is understandable. you obviously never watched idiocracy it is a documentary about the future giant dicks are coming |
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The ring of truth User ID: 9645480 United States 08/23/2019 06:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Japs been working on this for years... Im sure we are too.... China is now working on it... My thoughts is perfectly fine to do....than we can even eat the pig that gave us the organ... Im all for saving peoples lives... Im even for,prisoners giving a kidney to reduce ther sentence... TRUMP MAGA KAG 2020~AND BEYOND! Plus KILL THE UN,put a stake through its BLACK HEART OF DEATH! Then after that,GET RID OF THE IRS,CIA,FBI,NSA,AND SO ON... ALL WE NEED IS SHERIFFS! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77728224 Sweden 08/23/2019 06:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Recently, a Chinese startup named Qihan Biotech raised $20 million to develop replacement organs for humans. The smallish deal would hardly have rated a headline, except for the fact that the Hangzhou-based gene-editing company is aiming to grow those organs in pigs and other animals. If successful, such transplants could well transform medicine. And, thanks to a unique confluence of need, money, timing and culture, China is poised to lead the way in developing them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77944999 The history of using animal tissues to replace damaged or diseased human tissues, known as xenotransplantation, dates back at least to 16th century Europe. Science-based efforts gathered momentum in the 19th century, but stalled out as practitioners and patients discovered how strongly the human body rejects foreign organs. Medicine achieved a breakthrough only in the mid-20th century with the advent of immuno-suppressing drugs. Xenotransplantation has since become a recognized branch of medicine. Heart valves from pigs, for instance, are commonly used to replace faulty human ones. However, transplanting a complete, functioning animal organ such as a heart presents far more formidable barriers, the most crucial being the need to suppress or fool the human body's immune response. China's scientists have become world leaders in editing the pig genome to do just that. The hope is to produce organs that can help people with a range of illnesses, from heart disease to blindness. [link to www.bloomberg.com (secure)] Less than 50% Have they run out of Falun Gong practioners? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77944999 Poland 08/23/2019 06:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Recently, a Chinese startup named Qihan Biotech raised $20 million to develop replacement organs for humans. The smallish deal would hardly have rated a headline, except for the fact that the Hangzhou-based gene-editing company is aiming to grow those organs in pigs and other animals. If successful, such transplants could well transform medicine. And, thanks to a unique confluence of need, money, timing and culture, China is poised to lead the way in developing them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77944999 The history of using animal tissues to replace damaged or diseased human tissues, known as xenotransplantation, dates back at least to 16th century Europe. Science-based efforts gathered momentum in the 19th century, but stalled out as practitioners and patients discovered how strongly the human body rejects foreign organs. Medicine achieved a breakthrough only in the mid-20th century with the advent of immuno-suppressing drugs. Xenotransplantation has since become a recognized branch of medicine. Heart valves from pigs, for instance, are commonly used to replace faulty human ones. However, transplanting a complete, functioning animal organ such as a heart presents far more formidable barriers, the most crucial being the need to suppress or fool the human body's immune response. China's scientists have become world leaders in editing the pig genome to do just that. The hope is to produce organs that can help people with a range of illnesses, from heart disease to blindness. [link to www.bloomberg.com (secure)] Less than 50% Have they run out of Falun Gong practioners? Yes. They banned harvesting organs from prisoners some time ago. |
Obama King Snake Of Mongol User ID: 77945202 United Kingdom 08/23/2019 06:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hilarious.. So what the different between eugenics grown inside the secrets military underground labs cloning with human and animals gene since WW2?. Sons and daughters of Ape are hydrid animals with Martians gene. There is two different type of Mankind and Womenkind that is by eugenic or born naturally by sons or daughters of Ape and Son or Daughter of Man or by either Mankind or Womenkind.. .. are outside for they are disconnected from the source and cannot comprehend anything Holy, let alone righteous. From 1999 and seven months will then come again a great king of Terror, who will bring back the life of King of Mongol, before and after [both burning Bush's reign] , Mars [Wars] reign happily. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77945274 United States 08/23/2019 07:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | the healthier and longer they live, the more powerful the elite ruling classes will become. that's bad news for the underclass, who are basically work-pigs. might as well harvest the poor people's organs, why pretend they have any rights, they have the right to be slaves to money why don't these animals have rights? why is it ok to harvest their organs? because they can't scream or speak english, or understand what's being done to them? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77945274 United States 08/23/2019 07:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | what you see in the caste system in India, for 5000 years, is the pecking order of the hive mind. and in reality there were more than 4 castes, it evolves complexity, just as life evolves complexity. as the elite, wealthy's lives become more and more fantastic, fabulous, the more they will see a difference between themselves and the poor human shit who's lives completely suck. eventually, the structure will become more and more abusive to the less powerful, the depressing homeless we are obviously seeing this, in Syria, Afghanistan, the elites beieved it was ok to invade them, slaughter them , put homosexuals in power over them because...they could do it. they destroyed Venezuela, made them poor. it doesn't matter WHY They are poor, or even if it' their fault. if it IS the fault of the elites, this makes them hate their victims EVEN MORE, because these victims somehow made them do it, with their weakness, these victims LET Them be evil, or somehow are making them feel a little tiny bit icky about their glorious selves. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77085017 Puerto Rico 08/23/2019 08:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Recently, a Chinese startup named Qihan Biotech raised $20 million to develop replacement organs for humans. The smallish deal would hardly have rated a headline, except for the fact that the Hangzhou-based gene-editing company is aiming to grow those organs in pigs and other animals. If successful, such transplants could well transform medicine. And, thanks to a unique confluence of need, money, timing and culture, China is poised to lead the way in developing them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77944999 The history of using animal tissues to replace damaged or diseased human tissues, known as xenotransplantation, dates back at least to 16th century Europe. Science-based efforts gathered momentum in the 19th century, but stalled out as practitioners and patients discovered how strongly the human body rejects foreign organs. Medicine achieved a breakthrough only in the mid-20th century with the advent of immuno-suppressing drugs. Xenotransplantation has since become a recognized branch of medicine. Heart valves from pigs, for instance, are commonly used to replace faulty human ones. However, transplanting a complete, functioning animal organ such as a heart presents far more formidable barriers, the most crucial being the need to suppress or fool the human body's immune response. China's scientists have become world leaders in editing the pig genome to do just that. The hope is to produce organs that can help people with a range of illnesses, from heart disease to blindness. [link to www.bloomberg.com (secure)] Less than 50% They can create full organs using protein bio polymer structures culturing the patients own stem cells. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77944999 Poland 08/23/2019 08:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Recently, a Chinese startup named Qihan Biotech raised $20 million to develop replacement organs for humans. The smallish deal would hardly have rated a headline, except for the fact that the Hangzhou-based gene-editing company is aiming to grow those organs in pigs and other animals. If successful, such transplants could well transform medicine. And, thanks to a unique confluence of need, money, timing and culture, China is poised to lead the way in developing them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77944999 The history of using animal tissues to replace damaged or diseased human tissues, known as xenotransplantation, dates back at least to 16th century Europe. Science-based efforts gathered momentum in the 19th century, but stalled out as practitioners and patients discovered how strongly the human body rejects foreign organs. Medicine achieved a breakthrough only in the mid-20th century with the advent of immuno-suppressing drugs. Xenotransplantation has since become a recognized branch of medicine. Heart valves from pigs, for instance, are commonly used to replace faulty human ones. However, transplanting a complete, functioning animal organ such as a heart presents far more formidable barriers, the most crucial being the need to suppress or fool the human body's immune response. China's scientists have become world leaders in editing the pig genome to do just that. The hope is to produce organs that can help people with a range of illnesses, from heart disease to blindness. [link to www.bloomberg.com (secure)] Less than 50% They can create full organs using protein bio polymer structures culturing the patients own stem cells. Good, since you know how to grow organs better, you should tell them to stop their silly nonsense, because they obviously have no idea what they're doing. |
Azaziah User ID: 72540081 United States 08/23/2019 08:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This may be simply a 'cover' for the existing black market in human organs. If you take organs from a political prisoner, for example, but claim that they are, in fact, grown in an animal, the risk/reward problem flips in your favor. Last Edited by Azaziah on 08/23/2019 08:43 AM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 31133046 United States 08/23/2019 08:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Recently, a Chinese startup named Qihan Biotech raised $20 million to develop replacement organs for humans. The smallish deal would hardly have rated a headline, except for the fact that the Hangzhou-based gene-editing company is aiming to grow those organs in pigs and other animals. If successful, such transplants could well transform medicine. And, thanks to a unique confluence of need, money, timing and culture, China is poised to lead the way in developing them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77944999 The history of using animal tissues to replace damaged or diseased human tissues, known as xenotransplantation, dates back at least to 16th century Europe. Science-based efforts gathered momentum in the 19th century, but stalled out as practitioners and patients discovered how strongly the human body rejects foreign organs. Medicine achieved a breakthrough only in the mid-20th century with the advent of immuno-suppressing drugs. Xenotransplantation has since become a recognized branch of medicine. Heart valves from pigs, for instance, are commonly used to replace faulty human ones. However, transplanting a complete, functioning animal organ such as a heart presents far more formidable barriers, the most crucial being the need to suppress or fool the human body's immune response. China's scientists have become world leaders in editing the pig genome to do just that. The hope is to produce organs that can help people with a range of illnesses, from heart disease to blindness. [link to www.bloomberg.com (secure)] Less than 50% They can create full organs using protein bio polymer structures culturing the patients own stem cells. Shhh! Fetal stem cells ONLY ! Organs harvested from live pigs or Falun Gong ONLY ! Does this harvested political prisoner look unhappy ? |
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Crypto-Tard User ID: 77372940 United States 08/23/2019 10:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They harvest organs from unwilling donors in China. Mostly peaceful Falun Gong meditators. Probably millions of people. [link to faluninfo.net] When you are afraid of losing your life, you have already lost your life. Don't be afraid. |
Sungaze_At_Dawn User ID: 77427246 Canada 08/23/2019 10:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | All they need to do is grow organs from our own dna, not clone animals and kill brains and souls, but just the organs needed. The Devil tries to convince everyone he doesn't exist. The state tries to convince everyone they cannot resist. Do not go quietly into the good night. Rage Rage against the dying light! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1591704 United States 08/23/2019 11:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stop getting people sick then you Don't need this. That means the Chinese living in China are damaging their organs from contamination in the environment the food they eat .... ect Their industralisation is a Fasad ! Their probably expecting needing more millions of liver transplants in China than the US ! US needs over 25 million liver transplants by 2025 and 75% of population is overweight and obese ! --- per 327 million let say China has 5 times the population ..... they need to do over ----- 125 million liver transplants ----- and that's only one type of organ transplant ! Why mood clean up the Air they breath ---- they have the worst Air Quality Index ------ They industrialized in 20 years and contaminated half of all their rivers ::::: 25 thousand of 50 thousand rivers ! If they continue polluting and they manufacture their going to be breathing more heavy metals and breath the PM2.5 particle matter in to the blood stream damaging their organs .....then they will need more organ transplantation when living in the Big cities ...... -------------------------------- Better to clean up the environment ..... bring out clean technology ----- change dependence on petrol and carbon .....etc..... CHOICE Healthy food and clean water ... etc Don't damage your organs with a limited environment both inside the body and outside then you don't need Pig --- Oink oink oink ---- organs ! The more pig organs inside you the more pig you become ! Some really obese American are the 3 to 5 humans in size inside a single person :::: they can't even walk a few yards ..... because they are superaized piggy Americans |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1591704 United States 08/23/2019 11:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They've finished through their first few rounds of selling Falun Gong Organs from innocent people they've incarcerated and execute when their elite need an organ or to cater to ultra wealthy worldwide !!!! They don't respect human rights of Humans nor do they respect Animals rights or the Environment ! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1591704 United States 08/23/2019 11:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The ugly truth about China’s organ harvesting By Anastasia Lin June 23, 2019 | 10:34pm NurPhoto via Getty Images The verdict is in: On June 17, the China Tribunal announced its finding that China’s Communist regime has for two decades practiced systematic, forced organ removal from prisoners of conscience, mainly Falun Gong practitioners and Muslims. The independent, London-based panel of international legal and medical experts was led by Sir Geoffrey Nice, who also headed the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. After unwilling donors are executed, the tribunal found, their organs are sold to Chinese citizens or foreign “transplant tourists.” Before 2015, China, whose Confucian value system considers it important to keep the body intact after death, had no voluntary organ-transplant system. Yet hospitals perform some 60,000 to 90,000 transplant surgeries each year. Chinese hospitals promise that they can deliver hearts, livers, kidneys and corneas of matching blood type and size in two weeks. The surgeries can be scheduled in advance, which suggests hospitals know exactly when the “donors” are going to die. By contrast, America has a highly developed voluntary organ-donation system, and recipients typically have to wait hundreds of days. According to human-rights researchers, Chinese prison authorities regularly subject detained Falun Gong practitioners to medical exams to determine the health of their organs (even as they routinely torture these same prisoners). Detained Uighur Muslims report similar medical examinations. The tribunal also heard from Chinese medical personnel who have defected from the regime. They warned Western governments and medical practitioners of this ongoing atrocity. It wasn’t easy. One researcher likened his work to examining the scene following a nuclear explosion. Chinese government agencies and hospitals never provide honest numbers, so investigators have to make inferences from evidence such as hospital-renovation notices, patient turnover rates and medical research papers to estimate how many transplants are performed at each hospital. Beijing deletes all traces of evidence online, making preservation of available records vitally important to rights researchers. I first grappled seriously with this issue when I starred in the 2016 film “The Bleeding Edge.” I played a Falun Gong practitioner imprisoned for her beliefs, who is tied to an operating table as her vital organs are removed to be sold for profit. I later joined these courageous researchers and campaigners. We testified at legislative hearings to push for laws prohibiting foreigners from going to China for transplants and banning Chinese medical and police personnel from visiting the West. It was an uphill battle. Although Israel and Taiwan both passed laws making it harder for their citizens to obtain transplants in China, most other democratic governments were reluctant to acknowledge this crime against humanity, perhaps because doing so would imply an obligation to act immediately. SEE ALSO Body brokers make millions selling your loved one’s organs Body brokers make millions selling your loved one’s organs China launches vicious ad hominem attacks against critics, to undermine our credibility. Numerous screenings of my film, and of documentaries on the subject, have been canceled on university campuses and elsewhere following phones calls from Chinese diplomats. A year ago I was booked to discuss organ harvesting on a prominent Western public broadcaster. A producer canceled the interview hours before I was due to go on air. My representative was told the order came from “higher up” and that my “affiliations” had disqualified me from talking on live TV. China’s state-run media called me a tool of a “cult” working with “anti-China forces” to spread lies. Hundreds of thousands of people have been murdered and had their organs harvested since the practice was industrialized in 2000. The victims were Chinese citizens who wanted nothing more than to practice their beliefs in peace. Instead, they were killed by their government on an industrial scale. For those of us who have fought to expose this crime against humanity, the tribunal’s verdict is an answer to a prayer. We had presented the free world with mounds of evidence but were repeatedly dismissed. How many crimes did China’s global partners ignore, because the truth was inconvenient? Now that the China Tribunal has concluded that organ harvesting is happening on a massive scale, and systematically documented the practice, there is no excuse left for inaction. Anastasia Lin, Miss World Canada 2015, is ambassador for China policy at the Macdonald Laurier Institute and a senior fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1591704 United States 08/23/2019 11:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Mr. Polish man :::: If you visited China and they imprisoned you and you are a match and they choose to steal your organs to sell it to the upper 1 to 20 % of the wealthiest individuals in the world ..... I think your comment would be different ! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1591704 United States 08/23/2019 11:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The HATI president said that after their Earthquake ..... multiple choppers had flown in stealing organs from the survivors he had to use the military to fend them of with firearms ! Look for his videos on YouTube ::: President of Hati |