The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The viruses that we got rid of were endogenous retroviruses, meaning they're built into the pig genome of every pig on the planet. And they have been shown to infect human cells and to replicate and go into other human cells. So this is particularly bad scenario in immune-compromised patients. And the FDA recognized this decades ago and really was, I think, pleased to see progress being made on eliminating them from the germline of the pigs.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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