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Maria Christina Biancaabout 4 years ago

Hi... Can I ask your insight on this case study about Biomolecules What is the patient’s most striking clinical and laboratory findings? A 50-year-old male is rushed at the Emergency department of a hospital due to an accident causing severe blood loss. At that time, the hospital and the blood bank does not have the needed type of blood that matches the patient’s blood to survive during the operation. The attending surgeon suggest that in dire situation like this, there is no choice to use non-human blood to save the patient because looking and testing for possible blood match among the relatives would take time and will likely put the life of the patient in danger while waiting for the laboratory results due to severe loss of blood. The attending surgeon suggests using the pig’s blood wherein it is found out that among the 22,000 genes of human 14,000 of which is similar to a pig. Moreover, the doctor added that according to a study of Lawrence Schook, the human genome was cut into 173 puzzle pieces and rearranged it to make a pig and that everything matches up perfectly, the pig is genetically very close to humans. Apparently, the doctor has a document regarding the partial amino acid sequence comparison between humans with ABO blood types and to that of pig. It is identified that the patient’s blood type is O. Human A101 FTYYERPQSQAYIPKDEGDFYYLGGFFGG Human B101 FTYYERPQSQAYIPKDEGDFYYMGAFFGG Human O101 FTYYERPQSQAYIPKDEGDFYYLGRFFGG Pig FTYYERPLSQAYIPRDEGDFYYAGGFFGG

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