A Japanese research team said Thursday it has begun drafting guidelines to facilitate the safe xenotransplantation of genetically modified animal organs to humans, as experiments involving pig-to-human transplants of kidneys and hearts gain traction abroad.
NEW YORK (AP) — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New
A pair of gene-edited kidneys from a pig has cleared creatinine from the blood and has produced urine after xenotransplantation into a brain-dead patient.
It has been 32 days since Maurice Miller, a dead man who is being kept on life support, received a genetically modified pig kidney, and it is still functioning with no signs of rejection or infection