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Originally Posted by volleyball  That's an interesting idea. I do wonder how pigs islets would know how much to exactly produce in humans. And what is their lifespan? Would it fail slowly so you would have time to get it replaced. And where would you stick a 2 3/4" barrel? |
I would guess that any kind of islet cells wouldn't "know" anything, but the WE know
how many pig islet cells it takes to do the job. I seems logical that the cells would not all fail at the same time but I have no info on that either. As for where to "stick it" well, I have some funny responses but I'll spare you those.
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Originally Posted by BlueSky ...By far the biggest hurdle will be negotiating the xenotransplantation issue and dealing with all the emotion it arouses.  |
I wonder how far off the advance to human islets in a tube would be.
