Transplants
sa smith | October 21, 2011If there is one ERV I genuinely love talking about on ERV, its PERVs-- Porcine Endogenous Retroviruses.
And you all should care about them too-- Pigs and their PERVs (or, lack of PERVs, or lack of infectious PERVs) might one day have a direct impact on you or your friends/family.
Clinical trials involving tissue from genetically distinct pigs has already started Down Under, and apparently research in the US and UK is now considered 'imminent'.
Very, very cool update-- Im glad the PERVs are under control and this kind of research can move forward.
Of course, there are ethical positions to…