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.
China has made a breakthrough in the transplantation of organs from one species into another, with the country’s first gene-edited pig kidney surviving for over half a year in a monkey.
A single gene-edited pig kidney was transplanted into a macaque monkey. A monkey with a gene-edited pig kidney managed to survive for over six months in China as scientists continue to make ...
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 ...
TOKYO -- A Japanese research team announced on Nov. 25 that it has successfully transplanted a pig kidney genetically modified for humans into a monkey, marking Japan's first case of cross-species ...