Man Has Pig Kidney Removed After Living With It for a Record 9 Months
With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited ...
WAPT
Man receives pig kidney in successful transplant, company says
A New Hampshire man received a successful pig kidney transplant in June, a biotech company announced Monday.Bill Stewart, 54, received the kidney on June 14. He was discharged from Massachusetts ...
WBUR
Another N.H. man gets a pig kidney at Mass General as transplant trials are poised to start
A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplant, at a crucial point in the quest to prove if animals organs really might save human lives. The ...
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Pig kidney transplant success leads to new clinical trial at Massachusetts General Hospital
A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplant, at a crucial point in the quest to prove if animal organs really might save human lives. The ...
Yahoo
Pig kidney transplants take a step forward with approval of human trials
Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the next step: larger-scale clinical trials. eGenesis, one of the biotech ...
New Scientist
Pig liver transplant into a living person edges it closer to the norm
Transplanting organs from non-human animals into people could revolutionise medicine, potentially saving thousands of lives that are lost while people wait for organs. Scientists have previously ...