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#bodies — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Donated #bodies are powering #gene-edited organ research
    Using entire bodies in this way—as an experimental “decedent model”—remains highly unusual. But there’s been an upsurge in requests for bodies as more companies start testing animal-to-human #organtransplants using tissues from specially gene-edited pigs.
    technologyreview.com/2024/01/1