A Second Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.
MGH completes its second pig-to-human kidney transplant
A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
FDA Approves Transplant Trials for Gene-Edited Pig Kidneys
The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...
Harvard Medical School1d
Surgeons Perform Second Pig Kidney Transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
Second pig kidney transplant successfully completed at Massachusetts General Hospital
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...
Pig kidney transplant successfully completed at Massachusetts hospital
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...
Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.
Nature4d
The science behind the first pig-organ transplant trial in humans
The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.
HealthDay on MSN11d
Longest Pig Organ Transplant Survivor Passes 60 Days With New Kidney
Time was running out, because over the next eight years Looney kept losing accessible ... Looney's case is only the third ...
The Washington Post4d
FDA approves pig organ transplant trials for patients with kidney failure
during which she developed very high levels of antibodies abnormally primed to attack another human kidney, making it unlikely that she would ever receive a donated organ. The pig used in Looney ...
The Associated Press on MSN11d
The only person in the world with a functioning pig organ is thriving after a record 2 months
An Alabama woman is thriving a record 61 days and counting after receiving a pig kidney, a new milestone in the quest for ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN2d
Breakthrough: US FDA clears first gene-edited pig kidney transplants in humans
In a significant development for organ transplantation, two U.S. biotechnology companies, United Therapeutics and ...