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.
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 ...