Surgeons perform world's first pig kidney transplant into a human
- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient in Boston.
- The patient, Richard Slayman, is recovering well and is expected to be discharged soon after the groundbreaking surgery.
- This procedure offers hope for addressing the global shortage of donor organs, benefiting patients in need of transplants.
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The surgery took place in the United States on March 16. It was the first time in the world that a genetically modified pig kidney was transplanted into a living human being. The patient continues to recover and doctors admit that this may be the first step in making dialysis “obsolete”
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The TelegraphPig Kidney Transplanted Into Human for First Time
The gene-edited kidney of a pig has been transplanted into a human successfully for the first time, with the animal being genetically modified to make the organ compatible. The 4-hour surgery was conducted at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) on March 16, according to an MGH press release on Thursday. The kidney came from a pig that underwent 69 genomic edits to remove “harmful pig genes” and add “certain human genes to improve its compat…
A man from Massachusetts has just become the first person to receive a pig kidney transplant.
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