A pig heart transplant is still working a month later, a promising result for the future of medicine
1 year, 5 months ago

A pig heart transplant is still working a month later, a promising result for the future of medicine

Salon  

With a month behind him and the world's second transplanted pig heart inside him, new results from the University of Maryland School of Medicine show that xenotransplant recipient Lawrence Faucette is regaining strength and recovering from the surgery with no signs of organ rejection so far. After decades of failed animal-to-human transplants, Faucette became the second patient to receive the highly experimental surgery when he was ineligible for traditional heart transplant due to other health concerns. The University of Maryland team performed the world's first human transplant of a genetically altered pig heart last year, though the patient died after two months for unclear reasons. Traces of a pig virus were later found in the heart, spurring new virus testing ahead of Faucette's case.

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U.S. greenlights pig kidney transplant trials
1 month, 3 weeks ago

U.S. greenlights pig kidney transplant trials

Raw Story  

Two U.S. biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their gene-edited pig kidneys for human transplants. United Therapeutics along with another company, eGenesis, have been working since 2021 on experiments implanting pig kidneys into humans: initially brain-dead patients and more recently living recipients. United Therapeutics said trial patients would be monitored …

Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone
2 months ago

Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone

NPR  

Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone toggle caption Rob Stein/NPR NEW YORK — Towana Looney is waiting to check in with her doctors at NYU Langone Health when it registers that she's passing a major milestone in her recovery from a kidney transplant. "I didn't realize that I was going to be the longest living person with an …

World’s longest-living recipient of pig organ transplant passes 60-day milestone
2 months ago

World’s longest-living recipient of pig organ transplant passes 60-day milestone

Salon  

An Alabama woman who is also the second person in history to receive a pig kidney transplant is currently surviving for over, according to a recent report. Towana Looney received a pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health in November 2024, a pioneering surgery she received after waiting for seven years. Because she had a complex medical condition for which …

The only person in the world with a functioning pig organ is thriving after a record 2 months
2 months ago

The only person in the world with a functioning pig organ is thriving after a record 2 months

Associated Press  

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting. “I’m superwoman,” Towana Looney told The Associated Press, laughing about outpacing family members on long walks around New York City as she continues her recovery. “If …

US woman gets a second chance in life after pig kidney transplant: 'I'm overjoyed'
3 months, 1 week ago

US woman gets a second chance in life after pig kidney transplant: 'I'm overjoyed'

Hindustan Times  

Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999, only for the remaining one to fail years later due to pregnancy complications. Now, the 53-year-old from Alabama has become the latest recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney -- and is currently the only living person in the world with an animal organ transplant, New York's NYU Langone Hospital announced …

Tired of long organ waitlists, these patients are hopeful for a pig organ transplant
3 months, 1 week ago

Tired of long organ waitlists, these patients are hopeful for a pig organ transplant

Associated Press  

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The calls and emails started coming into NYU Langone Health and Massachusetts General Hospital soon after doctors began experimenting with pig organs in humans. Pig kidney recipient Towana Looney sits with transplant surgeon Dr. Jayme Locke on Dec. 10, 2024, at NYU Langone Health, in New York City. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit …

A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney
55 years, 2 months ago

A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney

Wired  

An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors announced Tuesday. In March, 62-year-old Richard Slayman made history when he received a kidney from a genetically engineered pig at Massachusetts General Hospital. In the second attempt, this April, 54-year-old Lisa Pisano received both a kidney and thymus gland from …

Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the gradually failing organ after just 47 days. The first patient to receive a pig kidney transplant, Richard “Rick” Slayman at Massachusetts General Hospital, died in early May, nearly two months after his transplant. Pisano’s heart and kidneys were failing when, …

Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
55 years, 2 months ago

Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery

Wired  

A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney. The patient, Lisa Pisano, had a mechanical heart pump implanted days before getting the transplant. She was facing heart failure and end-stage kidney disease and wasn’t eligible for a human organ transplant because of other health issues. “When this opportunity came, I …

Doctors combine a pig kidney transplant and a heart device in a bid to extend woman's life
11 months ago

Doctors combine a pig kidney transplant and a heart device in a bid to extend woman's life

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Then doctors at NYU Langone Health devised a novel …

U.S. Surgeons Transplant Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Into A Patient For The First Time
1 year ago

U.S. Surgeons Transplant Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Into A Patient For The First Time

Huff Post  

Surgeons remove a gene-edited transplanted pig kidney from the body of Maurice “Mo” Miller at NYU Langone Health in New York on Sept. 13, 2023. AP Photo/Shelby Lum NEW YORK — Doctors in Boston have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient, the latest experiment in the quest to use animal organs in humans. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday …

US surgeons transplanted pig kidney into patient for the first time, hospital says
1 year ago

US surgeons transplanted pig kidney into patient for the first time, hospital says

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Doctors in Boston have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient, the latest experiment in the quest to use animal organs in humans. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday that it’s the first time a genetically modified pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. He noted that unlike the pig heart recipients who were very …

A first-ever experiment shows how pigs might one day help people who have liver failure
1 year, 2 months ago

A first-ever experiment shows how pigs might one day help people who have liver failure

Associated Press  

Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure. In this case, the pig liver was used outside the donated body, not inside — a way to create a “bridge” to support failing livers by doing the organ’s blood-cleansing work …

Maryland man who was second person to receive a pig heart transplant dies
1 year, 4 months ago

Maryland man who was second person to receive a pig heart transplant dies

LA Times  

Lawrence Faucette, only the second person to receive a pig heart transplant, sits with his wife, Ann, in a Baltimore hospital before the operation in September. Only the second person ever to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his doctors in Maryland announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying …

Pig heart transplant: Second recipient dies 40 days after surgery | Deets here
1 year, 4 months ago

Pig heart transplant: Second recipient dies 40 days after surgery | Deets here

India TV News  

Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine announced that the recipient of the second-ever genetically modified pig's heart transplant has died. The deceased Lawrence Faucette suffering from terminal heart disease became the second patient in the world to receive a transplant of a genetically modified pig heart on September 20. “Faucette's last wish was for us to make …

Second person to receive experimental pig heart transplant dies
1 year, 4 months ago

Second person to receive experimental pig heart transplant dies

Salon  

The world's second xenotransplant recipient, Lawrence Faucette, died Tuesday at age 58. As reported by CNN, Faucette received the experimental transplant six weeks ago after being admitted to the University of Maryland Medical Center with symptoms of heart failure and pre-existing conditions which made him ineligible for a traditional human heart transplant. Despite excellent heart functions reported after the first …

Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital says
1 year, 4 months ago

Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital says

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20. He never imagined he would survive …

A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far
1 year, 5 months ago

A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — It’s been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig –- and hospital video released Friday shows he’s working hard to recover. In the first glimpse of Faucette provided since the Sept. 20 transplant, hospital video shows physical therapist Chris Wells urging him to smile while pushing through …

Gene-edited pig kidney keeps monkey alive for 2 years, trial finds, a step toward longer-lasting human transplants
1 year, 5 months ago

Gene-edited pig kidney keeps monkey alive for 2 years, trial finds, a step toward longer-lasting human transplants

CNN  

CNN — About 13 people die every day while waiting for a kidney transplant because of a lack of organ donors, but some scientists think pigs could be the answer. In a new trial that researchers say is the largest of its kind, researchers transplanted kidneys from genetically modified pigs into monkeys that lived for what’s considered a record amount …

From Neuralink to infectious diseases
1 year, 6 months ago

From Neuralink to infectious diseases

The Hindu  

It is impossible to ignore the allure of technology, particularly when it cohabits a sweet spot, intersecting with human health. The latest update on Elon Musk’s Neuralink to start human trials of brain implants for paralysis patients will sit squarely in that bracket. Two days after surgery, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair; the …

Another Person Just Got a Pig Heart. Scientists Have a Plan to Make It Last
55 years, 2 months ago

Another Person Just Got a Pig Heart. Scientists Have a Plan to Make It Last

Wired  

A 58-year-old man has become the second person ever to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig. The patient, Lawrence Faucette, was facing near death from heart failure and wasn’t eligible for a traditional transplant with a human organ. Pig organs aren’t naturally compatible with human bodies and are likely to trigger a fatal immune response. Three of …

Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man
1 year, 6 months ago

Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man

The Hindu  

Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. “You know, I just keep shaking my head – how am I talking to someone who has a pig heart?” Dr. Bartley Griffith, who performed the transplant, told The Associated Press. …

Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man
1 year, 6 months ago

Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. “You know, I just keep shaking my head – how am I talking to someone who has a pig heart?” Dr. Bartley Griffith, who performed the transplant, told The …

Groundbreaking transplant of pig heart into living recipient is performed for the second time ever
1 year, 6 months ago

Groundbreaking transplant of pig heart into living recipient is performed for the second time ever

CNN  

CNN — For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday. “My only real hope left is to go with the pig heart, the xenotransplant,” Faucette told the hospital in an internal interview several days before the surgery. According to the FDA, the program …

Surgeons, Who Transplanted Pig Kidney in Brain-Dead Man, Say Organ Functioned Properly for 2 Months
1 year, 6 months ago

Surgeons, Who Transplanted Pig Kidney in Brain-Dead Man, Say Organ Functioned Properly for 2 Months

News 18  

US surgeons who transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead patient announced Thursday they had ended their experiment after a record-breaking 61 days. “We have learned a great deal throughout these past two months of close observation and analysis, and there is great reason to be hopeful for the future,” said Robert Montgomery, director of the New York …

Pig kidney works a record 2 months in donated body, raising hope for animal-human transplants
1 year, 6 months ago

Pig kidney works a record 2 months in donated body, raising hope for animal-human transplants

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them. The dramatic experiment came to an end Wednesday as surgeons at NYU Langone Health removed the pig kidney and returned the donated body of Maurice …

Research team reports longest successful transplant of a pig kidney into a human
1 year, 6 months ago

Research team reports longest successful transplant of a pig kidney into a human

CNN  

CNN — A pig kidney successfully functioned in a human body for about two months, marking the longest documented case of a xenotransplant of its kind. In July, researchers at NYU Langone Health transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into the body of a 58-year-old man named Maurice Miller, known as Mo, who had a brain tumor and was experiencing …

Here’s What’s Next for Pig Organ Transplants
2 years, 3 months ago

Here’s What’s Next for Pig Organ Transplants

Wired  

The night before the transplant, surgeon Bartley Griffith didn’t sleep well. Griffith and the rest of the team at the University of Maryland Medical Center, led by surgeon Muhammad Mohiuddin, were about to conduct the first transplant of a genetically engineered pig heart into a human being. “The Maryland experiment illustrates very clearly that a pig heart can support the …

Two gene-edited pig hearts successfully transplanted into brain-dead humans
2 years, 8 months ago

Two gene-edited pig hearts successfully transplanted into brain-dead humans

The Independent  

Surgeons in the US have successfully transplanted two genetically engineered pig hearts into brain-dead individuals, further advancing a technique to save dying humans using animal organs. The hearts used in the procedure were procured from pigs that had 10 genetic modifications, including four porcine gene “knockouts” to prevent rejection and abnormal organ growth as well as six human genes inserted …

Pig Organ Transplants Inch Closer With Testing In The Dead
2 years, 8 months ago

Pig Organ Transplants Inch Closer With Testing In The Dead

Huff Post  

In this photo provided by NYU Langone Health, surgeons prepare a genetically modified pig heart for transplant into a recently deceased donor at NYU Langone Health on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in New York. Experiments are raising new hope that pigs might one day help fill a shortage of donated organs -- at least, for people who need a new …

Pig organ transplants inch closer with testing in the dead
2 years, 8 months ago

Pig organ transplants inch closer with testing in the dead

Associated Press  

New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs. Testing in the deceased could help fine-tune how the first trials in the living are designed, said Dr. David Klassen of the United Network for Organ …

Virus found in pig heart that was used in human transplant
2 years, 10 months ago

Virus found in pig heart that was used in human transplant

LA Times  

Members of the surgical team show the pig heart that was transplanted into patient David Bennett Sr. in Baltimore on Jan. 7. Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig have discovered the organ harbored an animal virus but cannot yet say whether it played a role in the man’s death. …

Virus found in pig heart used in human transplant
2 years, 10 months ago

Virus found in pig heart used in human transplant

Associated Press  

Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig have discovered the organ harbored an animal virus but cannot yet say if it played any role in the man’s death. University of Maryland doctors said Thursday they found an unwelcome surprise — viral DNA inside the pig heart. Because some viruses are …

Man who received world-first pig heart transplant dies
3 years ago

Man who received world-first pig heart transplant dies

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. One professor of stem cell biology said that it is not yet clear whether …

US man who got 1st pig heart transplant dies after 2 months
3 years ago

US man who got 1st pig heart transplant dies after 2 months

Associated Press  

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday. Bennett survived significantly longer with the gene-edited pig heart than one of the last milestones in xenotransplantation -- when Baby Fae, a dying California infant, lived 21 days with a baboon’s heart …

U.S. man who got first pig heart transplant dies two months after surgery
3 years ago

U.S. man who got first pig heart transplant dies two months after surgery

The Hindu  

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced on March 9. At first the pig heart was functioning, and the Maryland hospital issued periodic updates that Mr. Bennett seemed to be slowly recovering. Mr. Bennett survived significantly longer with the gene-edited …

US man who got 1st pig heart transplant dies after 2 months
3 years ago

US man who got 1st pig heart transplant dies after 2 months

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The first person to receive …

US man who got first pig heart transplant dies after 2 months
3 years ago

US man who got first pig heart transplant dies after 2 months

India TV News  

Highlights First person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has dies David Bennett, 57, first man to get pig heart transplant, died in Maryland Bennett’s son praised the hospital for offering the last-ditch experiment The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed …

Man who received world’s first pig heart transplant dies after two months
3 years ago

Man who received world’s first pig heart transplant dies after two months

LA Times  

David Bennett Sr., left, the first person to receive a pig heart transplant, and his son David Bennett Jr. in a Baltimore hospital. The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday. Bennett survived significantly longer with the gene-edited pig heart …

US man who got first pig heart transplant dies two months later
3 years ago

US man who got first pig heart transplant dies two months later

Al Jazeera  

David Bennett, the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig, has died two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the hospital that performed the surgery has announced. “We are grateful for every innovative moment, every crazy dream, every sleepless night that went into this historic effort,” David Bennett Jr said in a statement released by the University of …

The Capitalist Trap of Pig Organ Transplants
3 years, 2 months ago

The Capitalist Trap of Pig Organ Transplants

Wired  

Dave Bennett agreed to have an experimental pig heart transplant surgery for two reasons. In Bennett’s own words, he “wants a human heart.” By agreeing to the surgery, he’s hoping to convince the medical establishment that he’ll finally deserve one. There were a lot of variables—and a lot of big “ifs.” Despite the laudatory headlines, Bennett’s surgery was not a …

Kidneys from genetically modified pig transplanted into brain dead human
3 years, 2 months ago

Kidneys from genetically modified pig transplanted into brain dead human

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy In a world first, two kidneys from a genetically modified …

U.S. researchers test pig-to-human transplant in donated body
3 years, 2 months ago

U.S. researchers test pig-to-human transplant in donated body

LA Times  

In this photo provided by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, surgeons prepare to transplant kidneys from a genetically modified pig into the body of a deceased recipient in September 2021. “The organ shortage is, in fact, an unmitigated crisis and we’ve never had a real solution to it,” said Dr. Jayme Locke of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, …

A ‘lifeline’, animal farmed
3 years, 2 months ago

A ‘lifeline’, animal farmed

The Hindu  

A few days ago, from the midst of the daily gloom of COVID-19, came uplifting news of a pathbreaking surgical procedure in a New York hospital. It also overcomes another hurdle in human to human transplant; one does not have to seek consent from an animal which can be sacrificed for the organ. In the early 1960s, a surgeon called …

Explained | Will the pig-to-human heart operation lead to a new approach to organ transplantation?
3 years, 2 months ago

Explained | Will the pig-to-human heart operation lead to a new approach to organ transplantation?

The Hindu  

The story so far: On January 7, David Bennett, a 57-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. became the first person to receive a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig. Since transplantation of a pig heart into a human, called xenotransplantation, is an experimental procedure, doctors had to seek an emergency authorisation from the U.S. FDA. In late September last year, surgeons …

David Bennett: Patient who received pig heart transplant was jailed for stabbing man and leaving him paralysed
3 years, 2 months ago

David Bennett: Patient who received pig heart transplant was jailed for stabbing man and leaving him paralysed

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. David Bennett Sr, 57, made headlines …

A pig heart transplant in Assam in 1997
3 years, 2 months ago

A pig heart transplant in Assam in 1997

The Hindu  

On January 7, doctors at the University of Maryland Medical School in the U.S. made news when they transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a 57-year-old man. Few remember now that Dhaniram Baruah, a cardio-thoracic surgeon based in Sonapur near Guwahati, transplanted the organs of a pig into a human body in 1997. Time will tell whether the human …

USA: Human patient gets a genetically modified pig heart, survives
3 years, 2 months ago

USA: Human patient gets a genetically modified pig heart, survives

Op India  

A 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease has received a successful transplant of a genetically modified pig heart and is reportedly doing well. A 57-year-old man is reportedly in a stable condition after undergoing experimental surgery to receive a genetically modified pig’s heart, after he was deemed ineligible for a human transplant. The University of Maryland School of Medicine decided …

Man Receives Pig Heart Implant: 10 Genes Modified To Boost Acceptability
3 years, 2 months ago

Man Receives Pig Heart Implant: 10 Genes Modified To Boost Acceptability

News 18  

After doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine successfully implanted a pig’s heart in Maryland resident David Bennett, researchers feel that it will take a few more years until it becomes an everyday reality. The pig heart which Bennett received was a genetically modified one. Among those four genes, there was one gene which could trigger an aggressive …

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