Less than two months after the first breakthrough surgery, NYU Langone Health has performed its second successful investigational xenotransplantation procedure using a genetically engineered pig kidney. This second surgery is a sign of continued progress toward a potential alternative supply of life-saving organs.
Leading the second surgical procedure was Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, the H. Leon Pachter, MD, Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at NYU Langone and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute. He transplanted a pig kidney lacking the alpha-gal gene to a recently deceased donor maintained on a ventilator. LiveOnNY, the nonprofit organization that facilitates organ and tissue donation in the greater New York City area, assisted in identifying a generous whole-body donor to help move this landmark research forward.
“We have been able to replicate the results from the first transformative procedure to demonstrate the continued promise that these genetically engineered organs could be a renewable source of organs to the many people around the world awaiting a life-saving gift,” says Montgomery. “There is much more work to do before we begin living human trials, but our preliminary findings give us hope.”
The procedure, part of an ongoing study, was performed on Monday, November 22, 2021, at an NYU Langone research laboratory in Manhattan. The kidney was procured from a GalSafeTM pig engineered by Revivicor, Inc., a subsidiary of United Therapeutics Corporation. The gene that encodes the glycan known as alpha-gal—which is responsible for a rapid antibody-mediated rejection of porcine organs by humans—was “knocked out” in the donor pig. The pig’s thymus gland, responsible for “educating” the immune system, was fused with the kidney before transplantation.
Genetic-Engineering is a by-product of white supremacy. Not the abstract version of white supremacy, that anti-whites use as a usurping tool, but the tangible version.
The problem with Science! isn't that it highlights the supremacy of white ingenuity, but that it attempts to replace God with men.
Science! is a religion, and all religions require faith.
At some point we will all die. I have no doubt that scientists disagree. I also have no doubt that in the near future humans will likely be capable of living twice as long as they do now. But this illustrates the problem: we have to be able to come to terms with death, and Science! ultimately makes that worse, because it makes death the end, whereas Christianity makes death the beginning.
Hope is an overused word, but humans have to have hope. The hope that Science! provides is to be saved by men who replace your failing kidney with a genetically-engineered pig kidney (keep in mind, this is just the beginning; it doesn't stop with pig kidneys).
The future for humanity in a world ruled by Science! appears very dystopian:
- genetically-engineered Frankensteins
- eat a diet of bugs and GMO plants
- fear-based life; masks, injections, pills, etc
- escapism with drugs like DMT
- reproduction is mostly engineered, not created (ie Gattaca)
- live in a tiny home in a skyscraper with thousands of other Frankensteins
- existence is a construct; virtual in a metaverse
Who would want to exist in a reality like that? That sounds a lot like hell.
The decision becomes binary: hope in man and humanity, or faith in God and eternity.
Psalm 146:3-5
3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
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