From Neuralink to infectious diseases
1 year, 2 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 58-year-old Navy veteran was facing near-certain death from heart failure but other health problems meant he wasn’t eligible for a traditional heart transplant, according to doctors at the University of Maryland Medicine. Delight in health care advances apart, it was a sobering realisation of the high impact blood pressure has on the people of India thanks to the World Health Organisation’s first-ever report on BP. Here are a few issues that are relevant, in addition to what we have already discussed on the subject in the past: Looking at the curious link between Alzheimer’s disease and trauma, Saumya Kalia examines the question: Does stress — trauma, of the brain, the mind, the body — erode brain health to a degree that it hastens neurodegeneration, and consequently, the risk of developing AD?

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Who wants a pig organ? Patients sick and tired of waiting years for a transplant
6 days, 16 hours ago

Who wants a pig organ? Patients sick and tired of waiting years for a transplant

India Today  

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. “I think it’s worth the shot.” Now two U.S. companies aim to begin the world’s first clinical trials of xenotransplantation in 2025 – using pig kidneys or hearts to try to save human …

Tired of long organ waitlists, these patients are hopeful for a pig organ transplant
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
54 years, 11 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 …

Meet Some of the World’s Cleanest Pigs, Raised to Grow Kidneys and Hearts for Humans
5 months ago

Meet Some of the World’s Cleanest Pigs, Raised to Grow Kidneys and Hearts for Humans

Deccan Chronicle  

Blacksburg: Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. “These are precious animals,” said David Ayares of Revivicor Inc., who spent decades learning to clone pigs with just the right genetic changes to allow those first audacious experiments. …

Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney
6 months, 3 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
54 years, 11 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 …

She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump
8 months ago

She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. “I have to congratulate them,” said Dr. Tatsuo Kawai of Mass General, who noted that his own pig kidney patient was healthier overall going into his operation than NYU’s …

Scientifically Speaking | Pig organ transplants offer lifeline to waiting patients
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Scientifically Speaking | Pig organ transplants offer lifeline to waiting patients

Hindustan Times  

Earlier this month, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston achieved a first in medicine when they successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old man. Following the failure of a previous kidney transplant and life-threatening complications from dialysis, a pig kidney transplant now offers Richard “Rick” Slayman a solution that could potentially save his life. Also, in …

US surgeons transplanted pig kidney into patient for the first time, hospital says
9 months 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
11 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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 …

Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital says
1 year, 1 month 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, 2 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, 2 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 …

Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man
1 year, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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 …

How a family’s choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants
1 year, 4 months ago

How a family’s choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Mary Miller-Duffy was dazed and grieving. That’s how the body of Maurice “Mo” Miller started its journey to a sunny corner of NYU Langone Health’s intensive care unit — and became part of the quest to one day ease the nation’s transplant shortage with organs from animals. “This tragic death, this fast short death — something good …

Pig Kidney Transplanted into Brain-Dead Man’s Body, Works Normally for a Month
1 year, 4 months ago

Pig Kidney Transplanted into Brain-Dead Man’s Body, Works Normally for a Month

News 18  

Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. “It looks even better than a human kidney,” Montgomery said on July 14 as he replaced a deceased man’s own kidneys with a single kidney …

Genetically modified pig kidney still functioning 32 days after transplant into brain dead man
1 year, 4 months ago

Genetically modified pig kidney still functioning 32 days after transplant into brain dead man

The Independent  

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Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplants
1 year, 4 months ago

Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplants

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — 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. “It looks even better than a human kidney,” Montgomery said on July 14 as he replaced a deceased man’s own kidneys with …

Pig kidney transplant: Research teams detail new advancements, marking key steps on path to clinical trials
1 year, 4 months ago

Pig kidney transplant: Research teams detail new advancements, marking key steps on path to clinical trials

CNN  

CNN — New advancements in transplanting pig kidneys to humans, detailed by two separate research teams on Wednesday, mark key steps forward in the evolving field of xenotransplantation, the use of non-human tissues or organs to treat medical conditions in humans. “Being able to show that these pig kidneys not only made urine but were also able to clear creatinine …

Here’s What’s Next for Pig Organ Transplants
1 year, 11 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 …

Pig Organ Transplants Inch Closer With Testing In The Dead
2 years, 5 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, 5 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 …

US man who got 1st pig heart transplant dies after 2 months
2 years, 9 months 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
2 years, 9 months 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 first pig heart transplant dies after 2 months
2 years, 9 months 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 …

The Capitalist Trap of Pig Organ Transplants
2 years, 10 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 …

Muslim doctor behind pig heart transplant draws flak from family
2 years, 11 months ago

Muslim doctor behind pig heart transplant draws flak from family

Op India  

On January 7, Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin, a Pakistan based US doctor, earned headlines as the co-founder of US’ Maryland Medical Center that successfully transplanted a genetically engineered heart of a pig into a terminally ill American man. Speaking to Vice, a Canadian-American magazine, Dr Muhammad Mohiuddin, director of cardiac xenotransplantation at the University of Maryland Medical Center said: “I got …

US researchers test pig-to-human transplant in donated body
2 years, 11 months ago

US researchers test pig-to-human transplant in donated body

Associated Press  

Researchers on Thursday reported the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs. “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, who led the newest study and …

Kidneys from genetically modified pig transplanted into brain dead human
2 years, 11 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
2 years, 11 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
2 years, 11 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?
2 years, 11 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 …

A pig’s heart beats inside a human!
2 years, 11 months ago

A pig’s heart beats inside a human!

Deccan Chronicle  

Domestic animals have often been known to save humans from danger. While one might still find the tale of a pig heart beating inside a human’s chest merely science fiction, the truth does get, as they say, stranger than fiction. Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale, cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, explains to us that while four pig genes were …

A pig heart transplant in Assam in 1997
2 years, 11 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
2 years, 11 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 …

In a first, U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
2 years, 11 months ago

In a first, U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

The Hindu  

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he's doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. I know it’s a shot in the dark, but it’s my last choice,” Mr. Bennett said a day before the surgery, according to …

US man gets new lease on life after he receives heart from genetically-altered pig
2 years, 11 months ago

US man gets new lease on life after he receives heart from genetically-altered pig

Firstpost  

The patient, at the Maryland hospital, is doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery; doctors say, though it’s too soon to know if it is a success Maryland: In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he’s doing well …

In A Medical First, US Surgeons Successfully Implant Pig Heart In 57-Year-Old Man
2 years, 11 months ago

In A Medical First, US Surgeons Successfully Implant Pig Heart In 57-Year-Old Man

News 18  

US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations. Bennett, who has spent the last several months bedridden on a heart-lung bypass machine, added: “I look forward to getting out of bed after I recover.” The Food and …

In 1st, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
2 years, 11 months ago

In 1st, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

Associated Press  

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he’s doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. “If this works, there will be an endless supply of these organs for patients who are suffering,” said Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, scientific director …

Pig heart transplant: Man with terminal heart disease gets a transplant of genetically modified organ
2 years, 11 months ago

Pig heart transplant: Man with terminal heart disease gets a transplant of genetically modified organ

CNN  

CNN — A 57-year-old Maryland man is doing well three days after receiving a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind transplant surgery, University of Maryland Medicine said in a news release Monday. David Bennett had terminal heart disease, and the pig heart was “the only currently available option,” according to the release. Three genes that are responsible for rejection …

Oink oink: Surgeons transplanted kidney grown in a pig to a human and its works perfectly
3 years, 2 months ago

Oink oink: Surgeons transplanted kidney grown in a pig to a human and its works perfectly

Firstpost  

Researchers have long sought to grow organs in pigs to transplant into humans and technologies like cloning and genetic engineering have brought the vision closer to reality in recent years. Genetically engineered pigs “could potentially be a sustainable, renewable source of organs — the solar and wind of organ availability,” Montgomery said. “This is really cutting-edge translational surgery and transplantation …

Pig-to-human transplants come a step closer with new test
3 years, 2 months ago

Pig-to-human transplants come a step closer with new test

Associated Press  

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage, but among the hurdles: A sugar in pig cells, foreign to the human body, causes …

Pig kidney transplant in human patient successfully tested by US surgeons
3 years, 2 months ago

Pig kidney transplant in human patient successfully tested by US surgeons

CNN  

For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient’s immune system, a potentially major advance that could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant. Test results of the transplanted kidney’s function “looked pretty normal,” said transplant surgeon Dr. Robert Montgomery, who led the study. The …

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