What if organ transplants effect more than just biological function? Research suggests transplanted pig organs could carry ...

Artificial organ transplants have been held back by the difficulty of making networks of blood vessels - a problem scientists ...

Tim Andrews, one of four people to ever get a pig kidney transplant, was on an operating table five months ago. But on ...

Healio: How did you come to participate in a pig-to-human kidney transplant ... that we went down the path of developing the Parsons model, which is a model in which we’ve leveraged human ...

(CNN) — A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived ...

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig ...

It provides nutrients and oxygen to the fetus via the umbilical cord, acting like a gut, kidney, liver ... It shows that in guinea pigs, the therapy boosted placental function and delivery ...

Purespring bottles up $105M series B to bring kidney disease gene therapy to the clinic In a mouse model of IgA nephropathy, mice given PS-002 had lower levels of complement deposited in their ...

In 2020, a team led by UW scientist Dhanu Shanmuganayagam used gene editing to create a Wisconsin Miniature Swine model for xenotransplant studies. In a research building next to UW Hospital, kidneys ...

The same gene-edited pig kidney and thymus were used in that procedure ... of those who participated in our series of decedent model studies, this moment in transplantation would not have been ...

They both helped to develop a pig thymus–kidney concept with the intent of reducing the amount ... "Without the generosity and altruism of those who participated in our series of decedent model ...

She and her team at UAB actually helped to lay the groundwork for the medical victory with the first transplant in a pre clinical human model. “It’s really being able to do those pig kidney ...