aAn Alabama woman is free from dialysis and in better health after surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed a gene-edited pig kidney transplant last month. The surgery represents the latest …
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Kidney Transplantation
Gene-edited kidney and thymus to be transplanted into New Jersey woman: shot
by Rob Steinby Rob SteinDr. Jeffrey Stern, assistant professor of surgery at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine, and Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the New York University Langone Transplant Institute, prepare a …
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Kidney Transplantation
Second patient receives gene-edited pig kidney transplant in groundbreaking surgery
Doctors will perform a pig kidney transplant on April 12th. The patient is making a good recovery so far, but doctors must continue to monitor him in the hospital to …
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Kidney Transplantation
First-ever combination of heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant offers new hope for terminally ill patients
by News Sourceby News SourceSSurgeons at New York University Langone Health have performed the first surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump with a gene-edited pig kidney transplant. The patient is a 54-year-old woman …
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Doctors have successfully transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney into a living human for the first time. Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital removed the kidney and transplanted it into a 62-year-old …
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Organ Donation
For the first time, gene-edited pig kidneys are transplanted into humans
by News Sourceby News SourceIn an unprecedented medical procedure, physician-scientists at Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted gene-edited pig kidneys into humans. Although there are many unknowns about the viability of …
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Chinese scientists successfully perform first transplant gene edited A breakthrough method of transplanting whole pig livers into humans could help alleviate organ shortages. A pig liver that had been edited …