Opinions on the Future of Clinical Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation

Based on promising results obtained in primate models, pioneers in the US have now started to explore the new frontier of genetically-edited pig-to-human transplantation.The recent transition of xenotransplantation into clinical medicine has included transplants in brain-dead subjects and the compassionate use of xenotransplants in living recipient

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Inhumanity and sexbots: on incestuous relations with sexbots

British multimedia artist K.Davis has joined the campaign against sexbots initiated in 2015 by K.Richardson and E.Billing in the project Custom Framing Logging on to Love.Using photography, video, and sound design, she draws attention to how sexbots rearticulate the widespread treatment of humans as objects and underlines the commodification of sex

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Reduced nicotine content cigarettes in smokers of low socioeconomic status: study protocol for a randomized control trial

Abstract Background The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act gave the Food and Drug Administration jurisdiction over the regulation of all tobacco products, including their nicotine content.Under this act, a major strategy to reduce harm from cigarette tobacco is lowering the nicotine content without causing unintended adverse conseque

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