In a medical first, doctors transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney into a human patient after giving her a new heart pump. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the first-ever patient to undergo combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery, doctors announced. The patient, Lisa Pisano, ...

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Editor’s Note (7/9/24): Lisa Pisano passed away on July 7. The heart pump that was implanted in Pisano failed to supply enough blood to her transplanted pig kidney, and the organ was removed on May 29 ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. & RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR), a public benefit corporation, today announced the achievement of two milestones for ...

The patient was not considered a candidate for traditional organ transplants. In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a ...

Science writer Mary Roach chronicles both the history and the latest science of body part replacement in her new book. She also answers the question: Is it kosher to receive an organ donation from a ...

Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the next step: larger-scale clinical trials. eGenesis, one of the biotech ...

Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients.

NEW YORK -- In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump ...