Showing posts with label xenotransplant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xenotransplant. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Xenotransplants go to (clinical) trial

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  Yesterday's post was about a man who received a pig kidney as an exceptional "compassionate use" case. But now some formal ...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Xenotransplant of a pig kidney lasted nine months before failing (a new record)

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 No xenotransplant has lasted a year yet, but that's a target that now seems to be within reach for kidneys. (Kidneys are a more forgivi...
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Pig liver to human transplant: in China: a short story that may get longer...

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 Here's a forthcoming article in the Journal of Hepatology. Pioneering transplantation often provides tragic short stories of first atte...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Meat and dairy allergy ( to alpha-gal), ticks and gene-modified pigs

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 A previously rare allergy to a sugar molecule called alpha-gal, found in almost all mammals but humans, is now being spread by tick bites. ...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Xenotransplantation in Humans: pig organs edge closer to being clinically kosher

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  It has long been the conventional wisdom in transplantation that xenotransplants--transplanting a kidney from a genetically modified pig ...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Pig kidney transplant fails after four months--longest so far.

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 A news item in Science reports on the failure of a xenotransplant after four months.  Four months is not nothing.  So kidneys from transgen...
Friday, March 7, 2025

Toledo celebrates Mike Rees

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 Here's the announcement from the University of Toledo: University Recognizes Faculty Members with Distinguished Honor  "Rees joine...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Clinical trial of pig kidney transplants

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 A clinical trial is good news. The NYT has the story: F.D.A. Approves Studies of Pig Organ Transplants for Kidney Patients The research off...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Another transplant of a pig kidney

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A very highly sensitized patient, even one with lots of priority on the deceased donor waiting  list (a prior donor) may not find a compatib...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The first four patients who received transplants of organs from genetically modified pigs

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 NBC reports on the four patients who have so far received organ transplants from genetically modified pigs. Their loved ones died after rec...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

Increasing the supply of transplantable organs, in the long term, and sooner.

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  Here's an article on the website of The American Council on Science and Health, on technologies that might eventually replace the need...
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Richard Slayman: first recipient of pig kidney transplant dies after two months. (RIP)

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 Here's the story from the Guardian: Pig kidney ‘xenotransplant’ patient dies two months later . No indication that Richard ‘Rick’ Slaym...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Before pig kidneys can be transplanted into human patients...

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 Here's a paper in the Lancet suggesting some of the work that remains before pig kidneys can be transplanted into human patients: Immun...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Transplanted pig kidney functions for a week in brain dead patient

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 Here's a report on a kidney from a genetically engineered pig, that was transplanted into a brain dead patient maintained on a ventilat...
Friday, July 8, 2022

FDA Contemplating Clinical Trials of Pig-Organ Transplants (WSJ)

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The WSJ has the story: FDA Planning to Allow Clinical Trials of Pig-Organ Transplants . Move could be an important step in effort to ease th...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Xenotransplantation and pork chops

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 There's been recent news about xenotransplantation , with attempts made to transplant kidneys or hearts from genetically modified pigs ...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

David Bennet Sr., who lived for two months with a transplanted pig heart, RIP

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 Xenotransplants from pigs are probably here to stay, but are also not quite here yet, and may not be for some time. Yesterday's NY Time...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

First pig-to-human heart transplant (and some background on the trials with non human primates)

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 Xenotransplants, of pig organs into humans, may be closer than I thought. A dramatic step was taken last Friday when a pig heart was succes...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Organ shortages for transplantation: Pig kidneys won't be transplanted into people soon

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  Here's an article in Medpage Today by the chief medical officer at UNOS, pointing out that xenotransplantation is not going to substit...