Facts don't confuse me.There are also immunological issues related to rejection, don't confuse Shawn with the facts.
yeah, never wrestle with a pig...you both fall in the mud and the "PIG" likes it...I'm with you.
It's just when somebody says your post is way off base without actually responding to the content of it that it makes me want to pursue a follow-up.
But it was Quahom1 after all... the same guy who spent many posts trying to argue that pigs were human's closest genetic relative.
So you gotta consider the source.
I'm apparently the pig...You shouldn't make derogatory remarks about your brotherhood m8.
Only some of them act like swine.
I'm apparently the pig...
Wouldn't want to do that to a human (such a noble creature)Maybe you could get a human heart transplant.
(that was just cruel)
We can also custom-make heart valves by culturing the patient's own adult stem cells in a valve shaped scaffold, and then transplant it into the patient, so using pig valves would only make sense if you don't have enough time to custom-culture heart valves from the patient's stem cells.*Ahem*... a heart valve... not an entire heart. And it is a matter of fit more than genetics.
As we discussed in that thread there were many reasons pigs made good candidates for human organ cloning... none of which had to do with their being our closest genetic relative.