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Plan for Norfolk megafarm rejected by councillors over environmental concerns

The Guardian 03 Apr 2025
Councillors on King’s Lynn and West Norfolk borough council unanimously rejected an application ...
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Plans for Britain’s biggest ‘mega farm’ dealt blow by local council

The Daily Telegraph 03 Apr 2025
On Thursday, councillors in Norfolk unanimously rejected the controversial Cranswick farm, which would have seen thousands of pigs housed on a former RAF base amid concerns over its impact on the environment and animal welfare.
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China achieves breakthrough with first genetically modified pig liver transplant in human

The Times of India 28 Mar 2025
The organ was normally supplied with blood and showed no sign of immune rejection or inflammation ... Six gene modifications were done in the Bama miniature pig's liver to minimise immune rejection and enhance function in the human body.
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Surgeons Transplant Genetically Modified Pig Liver Into Chinese Patient

Slashdot 27 Mar 2025
Scientists in China successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a brain-dead patient, where it functioned for 10 days ... The pig had six genetic modifications aimed at preventing immune rejection.
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Chinese research team successfully transplants gene-edited pig liver into human

ECNS 27 Mar 2025
A Chinese research team has successfully completed the world’s first transplant of a gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead human, with the organ showing good physiological function, Xinhua reported Wednesday.
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Scientists Transplant a Gene-Edited Pig Liver Into a Person

Time Magazine 26 Mar 2025
Pigs are promising sources of organs, but the human immune system rejects transplanted pig tissue ... The donor liver in this case came from a pig that had received six modifications to certain genes in ...
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World's first pig to human liver transplant is carried out in major breakthrough | Daily ...

The Daily Mail 26 Mar 2025
The seven-month-old Bama miniature pig had been genetically modified to reduce the risk of rejection ... This was crucial to help prevent the recipient from rejecting the pig organ – a regular hurdle in animal-to-human transplants.
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Pig liver transplanted into human for first time

AOL 26 Mar 2025
To overcome the problem of rejection, scientists genetically edit the pigs with some human genes and remove others so that the recipient’s body does not recognise the porcine organ as foreign.Research a ‘pioneering advance’.
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Chinese researchers report a pig kidney transplant and a first-step liver experiment

Fox31 Denver 26 Mar 2025
— two pig hearts and two pig kidneys – were short-lived ... His team reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that a pig liver transplanted into a brain-dead person survived for 10 days, with no early signs of rejection.
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The Case for A Segregated Internet

Gab 24 Mar 2025
By rejecting the integration of AI directly into our social network we restored genuine human connection ... We reject the false god of globalism ... We reject the Silicon Valley oligarchs who view our people as guinea pigs for their social experiments.
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Chinese scientists develop cancer treatment that makes tumors mimic ‘pork’

Anadolu Agency 18 Mar 2025
The researchers have engineered tumors to mimic pig tissue, prompting the immune system to recognize them as foreign and launch a targeted attack using the same response that leads to organ transplant rejection.
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New cancer therapy ‘disguises’ tumors as pork to trigger immune attack, 90% effective

Interesting Engineering 17 Mar 2025
Disguising cancer as a pig gene ... Infecting cancerous cells with this virus, the pig gene effectively alerted the body to a foreign entity that inspires total rejection, so they pulverized the cancer cell by disguising it.
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Could titanium hearts be a solution to a global heart donor shortage?

Al Jazeera 17 Mar 2025
... and testing in animals like calves and pigs ... Since the BiVACOR titanium heart does not contain any biological tissue, the risk of rejection is lower compared with donor hearts or pig heart transplants.
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The American tourist who manhandled a baby wombat and enraged the world has been kicked ...

The Daily Mail 13 Mar 2025
Ms Strable's adventures included killing a wild pig with a knife in New Zealand. They rejected her application after a background check discovered she was an 'avid hunter and carnivore'.
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