A team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston achieved a groundbreaking milestone by successfully transplanting a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a 62-year-old man. This innovative procedure could potentially alleviate the organ shortage crisis. The patient received the kidney from a pig developed by eGenesisBio, marking the first instance of such a transplant in a human. The xenotransplantation procedure has shown consistent survival rates in non-human primates.
Xenotransplantation of 10GE Pig Kidneys to NHPs Shows Consistent Survival. Find out more: https://t.co/NiXQC3Igzd https://t.co/BYxiYCgTLM
In Brief: Surgeons at @MGHSurgery transplant a pig kidney into a living person for the first time. The patient received a kidney from a genome-edited pig developed by @eGenesisBio https://t.co/R3zlX2vSYV https://t.co/6SlBpAJ1TQ
Meritocratic medicine scores another triumph with a genetically modified pig kidney—but the STEM diversity crusade threatens to replace discovery with identity-driven mediocrity. https://t.co/jpAsTZIvGO via @HMDatMI
Could the successful transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney to a human spell the end of the organ shortage crisis? https://t.co/r6wqMRYJdN
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed a breakthrough surgical accomplishment, transplanting a kidney from a gene-hacked pig into a 62-year-old man. https://t.co/QIKRH9WzFQ