2024年3月21日 · The pig kidney — provided by biotech company co-founded by HMS scientists — was genetically edited to make it more compatible with humans and reduce chance of infection. Longer-term results of the first-of-its-kind transplant, conducted under an FDA compassionate-use protocol, are not yet clear.

2023年9月22日 · For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday. The groundbreaking surgery was done on...

2024年3月21日 · Doctors have performed the first transplant of a genetically modified kidney from a pig into a living human, they announced Thursday. The four-hour surgery was performed Saturday at...

2024年3月21日 · Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital said they transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a living human for the first time. The 62-year-old recipient has end-stage kidney disease...

Massachusetts General Hospital announced the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig (porcine) kidney into a 62-year-old man living with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).

2023年8月16日 · Surgeons with the Transplant Institute performed two genetically engineered pig heart transplants in summer 2022. The first hurdle to overcome in xenotransplants is preventing so-called hyperacute rejection, which typically occurs just minutes after an animal organ is connected to the human circulatory system.

2015年10月15日 · With the retroviruses safely removed via genetic engineering, however, the door is now open on the possibility that humans could one day receive life-saving organ transplants from pigs. Church is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and a Wyss core faculty member.

2024年3月21日 · Surgeons in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a genetically engineered pig into an ailing 62-year-old man, the first procedure of its kind. If successful, the breakthrough offers hope to...

2022年3月21日 · The recent groundbreaking clinical results showing the feasibility of transplanting transgenic pig organs into humans raise hopes that xenotransplantation can help solve the critical shortage of...

In late September 2021 a team of researchers transplanted a gene-edited pig’s two kidneys into the body of a person who had undergone brain death (the irreversible loss of all brain function) in...