Graft’ll do, pig
Meet Xenotherapeutics, a non-profit biotech whose founders believe they can turn skin from specially bred pigs into usable skin grafts for humans suffering from serious burns.
As STAT’s Kate Sheridan reports, pigs and people aren’t all that different at a tissue level, but the idea of grafting porcine skin has long been complicated by concerns that the human immune system would reject it. But Xenotherapeutics is using pigs engineered to lack a certain gene that the human body considers a threat.
Come January, the group will test that theory in a first-ever clinical trial.
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