Pig Kidney, Transplant
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 kidney into a living person. The hospital, which completed the world's first xenotransplantation in March 2024, said the latest transplant was completed during a 2.5-hour procedure on Jan. 25.
Friday is Valentine's Day, but it's also National Donor Day. For a Pleasant Hills couple, it's also the day one year ago, ...
Because Looney had donated a kidney to her mother in 1999, she was at the top of the transplant list when she needed one herself about eight years ago. She waited and hoped for a human donor ...
The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...
The first transplant is expected in mid-2025. Meanwhile, rival eGenesis said it had received FDA approval in December for a ...
Andrews had spent the better part of two years on dialysis because of end-stage kidney disease. He was on the transplant wait list for a new kidney, but his blood type made it particularly ...
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