UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News (news.ubc.ca)
from General_Effort@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 11:25
https://lemmy.world/post/37378824

UBC = University of British Columbia

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9point6@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 12:09 next collapse

I mean, this sounds like a pretty huge deal

Does anyone who knows this field better than me, know if this is as big as it sounds?

theorychapter@sh.itjust.works on 15 Oct 12:47 collapse

Going off the paper’s abstract it sounds like it isn’t a permanent conversion into the universal blood type O. The abstract mentioned an immune response against the kidney at day 3. Also, there’s more factors that determine organ transplant compatibility other than blood type matching (which seems to be what this research touched on). So it is an important step but there’s still other factors that also need to be addressed before an organ transplant process can truly be called universal based on my knowledge.

Whostosay@sh.itjust.works on 15 Oct 15:45 next collapse

This will be really cool for the countries that are civilized.

_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus on 15 Oct 17:12 next collapse

This sounds great, but knowing capitalism it’ll end up like that movie where they repo’d organs that people were late on the payments for.

humancrayon@sh.itjust.works on 16 Oct 14:06 collapse

REPO!: The Genetic Opera was a fantastic movie. Paris Hiltons finest role.

Bubs@lemmy.zip on 15 Oct 17:35 next collapse

I saw the image first without reading the title and was really scared thinking that it was some horrifying sous vide…

Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml on 15 Oct 18:12 next collapse

USB-C enzyme?! Damn, that’s one universal bus!

SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works on 16 Oct 14:23 collapse

Universal Basic…Cum?