Scientists at UC San Francisco have developed a bioreactor that can survive inside a pig that is designed to mimic some of the vital functions of a kidney. Think of it as a pacemaker, but in the form of a mechanical kidney — a potentially revolutionary new treatment for kidney failure. But the research is […]
right? same thing. actually very similar to the one i m saying about covid. the flu shot decreases your risk of very ventilator. if you are in high risk group you don t want a severe outbreak of the flu. steve: dr. siegel works at it it. doctor successfully transplanted a pig kidney man who brain dead at the time obviously for testing purposes and it was successful. it s been in there for a month already. he thinks it s going on the second month. is he monitoring it very, very closely. it s working just like a human kidney. gets rid of fluids, gets rid of waste. handels electrolytes. dr. montgomery, chief of surgery at nyu, he is a miracle worker. he himself one of the top kidney transplant surgeries in the country has had a heart transplant. has had several near death experiences. is he a hero. he goes to ukraine and is doing
(Bloomberg) Doctors transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man’s body where it continued to function normally, moving the field closer to the possibility of using animal tissue and organs to fight human disease.Most Read from BloombergGoldman CEO’s Most Loyal Deputy Is Tested by Mutinous PartnersChina Shadow Bank Misses Dozens of Payments as Risks GrowTech Stocks Take a Leg Down Ahead of Fed Minutes: Markets WrapChina Asks Some Funds to Avoid Net Equity Sales as Markets SinkMarc Becker
the first ever pig to human transplant. xenotransplantation is using a nonhuman organ and transplanting it into a human. the genetically engineered was attached for 54 hours to a deceased donor who was kept on life support. the transplant went really well. in fact the kidney behaved and looked just like a human kidney. a major test of whether zeno transplanting organs may be a solution to the prices. what was the key to genetically engineering the pig kidney so the human recipient would not reject it. we knocked out a particular gene that has been lost during evolution from pig to man. so we can invert rejection. this is personal for montgomery who was just 15 but