The first man to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig has been discharged from hospital. The 62-year-old was sent home on Wednesday, two weeks after the ground-breaking ...
11. A team consisting of researchers from Kagoshima University and Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine plans to transplant the pigs’ kidneys into monkeys to verify the safety of the organs.
Doctors have performed the first transplant of a genetically modified kidney from a pig into a living human, they announced ...
A surgical team said Thursday it has conducted the world's first genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a living human. During a four-hour procedure earlier this month, surgeons at ...
A 62-year-old man is said to be recovering well and should leave hospital soon, after getting a new kidney from a pig that was genetically modified to reduce the risk of the organ being rejected.
“This work demonstrates that a pig kidney, with only one genetic modification ... source for people with the alpha-gal syndrome,” a meat allergy triggered by the bite of a type of tick.
Richard Slayman, the first successful recipient of a pig-to-human kidney transplant, died in May from heart complications unrelated to the procedure, according to Massachusetts General Hospital.
The death of a Weymouth man two months after undergoing what his doctors at Mass General Hospital described as the first successful pig-to-human kidney transplant was caused by "an unexpected ...
Surgeons in the US who transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead patient ... has also approved the herd as a source of meat for people with hypersensitivity to the alpha ...