https://time.com/6303020/chronic-kidney-disease-climate-change/
I've been thinking that a lot of those jobs will have to shift to the graveyard shift. Some harvesting already has, but also construction and so forth.
Pig Kidneys Performing Effectively in Two Brain-Dead Patients - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/health/pig-kidney-organ-transplants.html
>pig kidneys
Honestly, I'd have thought that pig organs would be utilized more by now.
>pig organs
For organ transplants, the issues are rejection and size (pig organs can grow too large). As I understand it, to manage both requires a significant amount of currently state-of-the-art gene-editing. Science is just now capable of doing this. The first trial of CRISPR in humans took place in China in 2016 ...and it usually takes 5-10 years to advance from the trial stage to being in general use.
I do think that we're likely to see pig kidneys regularly used for human transplants in 5-6 years. Why? It is costing medicare BIG $$$ and they're desperate for a cheaper fix and seem willing to fund promising research. End stage kidney disease, which affects only 1 percent of Medicare beneficiaries, accounts for 7 percent of Medicare spending.
>graveyard shift
double entendre...
Mississippi Guard restricts outdoor training during heat wave after 1 soldier dies, another ends up in the hospital | Stars and Stripes
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-08-21/soldier-heat-dead-national-guard-mississippi-11115932.html