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fromFortune
6 days ago
Medicine

American man who volunteered for an experimental pig kidney transplant is off dialysis and wants to 'give some people some hope'

fromBoston.com
6 days ago
Medicine

Another New Hampshire man gets a pig kidney as transplant trials are poised to start

FDA approved eGenesis to begin a rigorous clinical study of gene-edited pig kidney transplants after promising human one-off cases extended graft survival.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago
Medicine

Surgeons transplant pig lung into brain dead human recipient for first time

A genetically modified pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead human recipient functioned for nine days, demonstrating progress in xenotransplantation but clinical use remains distant.
fromFortune
6 days ago
Medicine

American man who volunteered for an experimental pig kidney transplant is off dialysis and wants to 'give some people some hope'

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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Brainless bodies and pig organs: does science back up Putin and Xi's longevity claims?

Current organ transplantation extends life for terminal patients but is not yet a realistic method for prolonging healthy human lifespan.
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