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US woman gets a second chance in life after pig kidney transplant: 'I'm overjoyed'
3 weeks, 3 days 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 …

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Who wants a pig organ? Patients sick and tired of waiting years for a transplant
3 weeks, 3 days 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 …

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A U.S. farm breeds pigs for human kidney transplants
3 weeks, 3 days ago

A U.S. farm breeds pigs for human kidney transplants

Raw Story  

by Ulysse BELLIER On a farm in the southern U.S. state of Virginia, David Ayares and his research teams are breeding genetically modified pigs to transplant their organs into human patients. - 'Little room for recognition' - AFP For more than 20 years, Revivicor, in Blacksburg, Virginia, has been conducting research to turn pig-to-human transplantation from science fiction to life-saving …

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Alabama woman is recovering well after receiving a pig kidney, doctors say
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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Alabama woman is recovering well after receiving a pig kidney, doctors say

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An Alabama woman is doing well after she received a pig …

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Tired of long organ waitlists, these patients are hopeful for a pig organ transplant
3 weeks, 3 days 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 …

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

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An Alabama woman is doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplant
3 weeks, 3 days ago

An Alabama woman is doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplant

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. To have a working kidney — and to feel it — is unbelievable.” Pig kidney recipient Towana Looney is visited by transplant surgeon Dr. Robert Montgomery …

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Talking with the first person to receive a new kind of pig kidney transplant
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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Talking with the first person to receive a new kind of pig kidney transplant

NPR  

Talking with the first person to receive a new kind of pig kidney transplant NPR visits first person to get a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney two weeks after undergoing the historic procedure. ROB STEIN, BYLINE: It's been two weeks since I spent the day inside an OR at NYU Langone Health in New York City, watching surgeons …

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Alabama woman recovering well after latest experimental pig kidney transplant
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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Alabama woman recovering well after latest experimental pig kidney transplant

India Today  

NEW YORK: An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ — and notably, she isn’t as sick as prior recipients who died within two months of …

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Meet Some of the World’s Cleanest Pigs, Raised to Grow Kidneys and Hearts for Humans
5 months, 2 weeks 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. …

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Pig transplant research yields a surprise: Bacon safe for some people allergic to red meat
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Pig transplant research yields a surprise: Bacon safe for some people allergic to red meat

Associated Press  

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Some people who develop a weird and terrifying allergy to red meat after a bite from a lone star tick can still eat pork from a surprising source: Genetically modified pigs created for organ transplant research. While xenotransplants still are experimental, Revivicor’s “GalSafe” pigs won Food and Drug Administration approval in 2020 to be used as a …

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A woman who received a pig kidney transplant plus a heart pump has died
6 months ago

A woman who received a pig kidney transplant plus a heart pump has died

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A woman who received a pig kidney transplant -- along with an implanted device to keep her heart beating – has died, her surgeon announced Tuesday. The New Jersey woman initially seemed to be recovering well but about 47 days later, doctors had to remove the pig kidney and put Pisano back on dialysis after the organ was …

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Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed
55 years ago

Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed

Wired  

Surgeons in New York have removed a pig kidney less than two months after transplanting it into Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman with kidney failure who also needed a mechanical heart pump. The team behind the transplant says there were problems with the heart pump, not the pig kidney, and that the patient is in stable condition. Pisano first received …

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Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney
7 months, 1 week 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, …

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Alien organs give hope of longer life
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Alien organs give hope of longer life

China Daily  

Medical experts perform a surgery to transplant blood vessels from a genetically edited pig to the abdominal wall of a recipient monkey at Xijing Hospital at the Air Force Military Medical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province. ZENG XIANHUI/FOR CHINA DAILY The world's fifth living-body alien organ transplant, the first liver transplant from a pig to a living human, was successfully …

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First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later
7 months, 4 weeks ago

First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later

Associated Press  

BOSTON — The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure, his family and the hospital that performed the surgery said Saturday. The transplant team at Massachusetts General Hospital said in a statement it was deeply saddened by Slayman’s passing and offered condolences to his family. Slayman had a …

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

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She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump
8 months, 2 weeks 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 …

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He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working
55 years ago

He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working

Wired  

About a week after the transplant, Riella says, the team noticed signs of rejection, when the body’s immune system recognizes the donor organ as foreign and starts to attack it. Photograph: Massachusetts General Hospital “It's pretty miraculous this man's out of the hospital a couple of weeks after putting in a pig kidney,” says Steven Perrin, Eledon’s president and chief …

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Scientifically Speaking | Pig organ transplants offer lifeline to waiting patients
9 months, 2 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 …

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US surgeons transplanted pig kidney into patient for the first time, hospital says
9 months, 2 weeks 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 …

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Pig heart transplant: Second recipient dies 40 days after surgery | Deets here
1 year, 2 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 …

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Maryland man who was second person to receive a pig heart transplant dies
1 year, 2 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 …

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

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