- Doctors Take Another Step Toward Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants With the First Pig Kidney Transplant. The experimental procedure was done on a man experiencing end-stage kidney failure last week who had been on the transplant waiting list for two years. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-human-receives-pig-kidney-transplant-180984016/ 5 comments health
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- Monkeys With Transplanted Pig Kidneys Survive for Up to Two Years | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/monkeys-with-transplanted-pig-kidneys-survive-for-up-to-two-years-180983057/ 5 comments
- Design and testing of a humanized porcine donor for xenotransplantation | Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06594-4 2 comments
- World’s First Genetically-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant into Living Recipient Performed at Massachusetts General Hospital https://www.massgeneral.org/news/press-release/worlds-first-genetically-edited-pig-kidney-transplant-into-living-recipient 0 comments
- In a First, Genetically Edited Pig Kidney Is Transplanted Into Human | Harvard Medical School https://hms.harvard.edu/news/first-genetically-edited-pig-kidney-transplanted-human 0 comments