US EditionMajor Progress in Pig Kidney Transplantation. Scientists Have Discovered Why and Exactly How the Human Body Rejects Them
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Scientists have mapped the body's immune response to a transplanted pig kidney in detail • Key cells and the timeline of the organ rejection process have been identified • This breakthrough enables the development of targeted interventions to suppress the immune response
Argentine science has just taken a significant step in the development of xenosplant—the transplant of animal organs in humans—with the creation of the first genetically modified pig in Latin America that managed to overcome the most severe immune rejection: hyperacute rejection. This modification was tested in an innovative experiment that consisted of infused a pig kidney with whole human blood, fresh, anticoagulated and at body temperature. T…
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