Showing posts with label xenotransplant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xenotransplant. Show all posts
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...