Surgeons Perform Second Pig Kidney Transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time successfully transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a living person. The team performed the first surgery of its kind in the world in March 2024.
The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
“This is uncharted territory,” said Mass General’s Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, who led both Andrews’ surgery and the world’s first pig kidney transplant last year. But with lessons from animal ...
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