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Australia has a shortage of life-saving organs. Pigs might be the answer

Australia has a shortage of life-saving organs. Pigs might be the answer

Update: 2025-10-20
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If you needed a life-saving transplant, would you take a gene-edited organ from a pig? It sounds like science fiction, but this procedure has been researched for decades, and it could help solve the massive organ shortage. But is it ethical to use animals for their parts? And are there other risks? 

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Australia has a shortage of life-saving organs. Pigs might be the answer

Australia has a shortage of life-saving organs. Pigs might be the answer

Australian Broadcasting Corporation