Transplante órgãos entre espécies?

OMG, eutanásia e tudo...
https://zap.aeiou.pt/babuinos-coracoes-porco-229958

Citando:
"Foram ainda tomados alguns passos fundamentais para o sucesso dos transplantes e que estão relacionados com a manutenção da integridade do órgão. Desta forma, em vez de conservarem os órgãos no frio, bombearam uma solução refrigerada com sangueoxigenado, nutrientes e hormonas.

Na primeira fase da experiência, os cientistas concluíram que os corações de porcos cresciam dentro do peito dos babuínos até lhes causar a morte. Para evitar a hipertrofia, reduziram a pressão sanguínea dos babuínos até alcançarem um nível estável e fizeram-lhes tratamentos farmacológicos e hormonais.

Dos 16 babuínos que participaram nesta experiência, dois viveram saudáveis durante 90 dias (o período limite da experiência) e os outros dois foram mantidos vivos por seis meses, antes de serem submetidos a eutanásia."

Transplante fecal?

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43815369

Citando:
"Performing the transplant

The problem with C. difficile is that patients will have multiple bouts of watery and even bloody diarrhoea every day, tummy cramps, fever and in the most severe cases the infection is fatal.

The best that medicine has to offer is more antibiotics; it is the definition of a vicious circle.

A stool transplant - or to give it its full title "a faecal microbiota transplant" - aims to repopulate the patient's gut with the microbes from a healthy person.

A relative is often used as they would have had similar gut bacteria.

After a "sample" is produced, it is mixed with water.

Some techniques break the poo up by hand while others blitz it in a household blender.

There are two routes for getting the sample into the required location - down through the mouth or up through the rectum."
(...)
"But will trans-poo-sions mean anything for medicine beyond C. difficile?

The interaction between our human and microbial selves is being investigated in nearly every disease you can think of.

The microbiome has been linked to diseases including inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, Parkinson's, whether cancer drugs work and even depression and autism.

But this means there could be unintended consequences of a faecal transplant.

There was a report in 2015 of a woman gaining 36lb (16kg) and being classed as obese after a transplant from her daughter.

It is possible to make mice thinner or fatter by transplanting into them the microbiome from either a lean or obese human, although the jury is still out on whether the same rules apply in people."

CRISPR usado para criar porcos livres de PERV

... que pode ser transmitido a humanos (se órgãos transplantados em humanos):
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/11/scientists-closer-using-pig-organs-humans-working-pig-2-0/55903800

Citando:
"The company and its collaborators published their work in the journal Science, where they explain how they created the PERV-less piglets.

Using a genome-editing tool named CRISPR, the researchers created PERV-free embryos, implanted them into surrogate female pigs, which gave birth to piglets without the retrovirus. 

The piglets are now four-and-a-half months old and will be monitored for any long-term effects. "

(...)
"But the fear of transmitting PERVs to humans was, among other hurdles, blocking progress toward successful xenotransplantation, making the eGenesis find an important one."

Alguém sugeriu cocó?

"Megacurioso":
Cápsulas de cocó congelado podem resolver problemas de saúde crónicos (algo defendido por alguns médicos da moda nos US que até promovem a execução de limpezas intestinais a quem sofre de... cansaço ou outras condições aparentemente crónicas - com o objectivo de promover a renovação da flora intestinal).

Aqui fala-se de transplantação por... ingestão:

http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/15/frozen-poo-capsules-could-save-peoples-lives-4907099/

http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwjPm-zR8

É a notícia esquisita (e a aprofundar) do ano não?