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After a man lives nearly nine months with a pig kidney, two American firms are preparing clinical trials
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After a man lives nearly nine months with a pig kidney, two American firms are preparing clinical trials

Our podcast on science and technology. Will transplanting animal organs into people become a norm of modern medicine?

Blood filtering has performed well in early trials

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Treatments should encourage healthy cells as well as killing unhealthy ones

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