22-03-2024, 02:50 PM
Transplanted into living human. It'll be interesting to see how this goes & whether or not it could be the way of the future.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/35022...ving-human
"A kidney from a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a living human being for the first time.
The organ had 69 genetic alterations to make it less porcine in appearance and safer for a human recipient.
The four-hour procedure took place in the US on March 16 and was a success, with the patient said to be recovering well.
Richard “Rick” Slayman has diabetes, high blood pressure and end-stage kidney failure. The 62-year-old had previously received a human kidney transplant from a deceased donor, but that organ started to fail last year.
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, recommended the xenotransplantation option to Slayman as a possible route to avoid more dialysis and further deterioration.
Modified pig kidneys have been given to people before as part of pioneering experiments, but all previous attempts were to brain-dead individuals being kept alive by machines, with the procedures purely experimental to test out the viability of the procedure.
Slayman is in hospital and recovering well. He is on a pioneering cocktail of drugs – tegoprubart, from Eledon Pharmaceuticals, and ravulizumab-cwvz, from Alexion Pharmaceuticals – which are designed to prevent his immune system from attacking and rejecting the foreign organ."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/35022...ving-human
"A kidney from a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a living human being for the first time.
The organ had 69 genetic alterations to make it less porcine in appearance and safer for a human recipient.
The four-hour procedure took place in the US on March 16 and was a success, with the patient said to be recovering well.
Richard “Rick” Slayman has diabetes, high blood pressure and end-stage kidney failure. The 62-year-old had previously received a human kidney transplant from a deceased donor, but that organ started to fail last year.
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, recommended the xenotransplantation option to Slayman as a possible route to avoid more dialysis and further deterioration.
Modified pig kidneys have been given to people before as part of pioneering experiments, but all previous attempts were to brain-dead individuals being kept alive by machines, with the procedures purely experimental to test out the viability of the procedure.
Slayman is in hospital and recovering well. He is on a pioneering cocktail of drugs – tegoprubart, from Eledon Pharmaceuticals, and ravulizumab-cwvz, from Alexion Pharmaceuticals – which are designed to prevent his immune system from attacking and rejecting the foreign organ."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)