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A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis

NPR

A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis toggle caption Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health NEW YORK – Towana Looney can hardly contain her anticipation as she waits to get wheeled to an operating room at the NYU Langone Health hospital in New York City for an historic procedure. "It's going to change my life," …

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2 weeks ago

Diver pieces back together smashed marine ecosystem

China Daily

Wang Fengguo and a fellow diver transplant corals at the ranch in May last year. With the help of the local government, Wang got in touch with the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has a team long dedicated to coral research. Since then, in addition to maintaining their ongoing efforts in collecting …

Wang Coral Coral Seedlings

1 month, 1 week ago

New research supports brain cell transplantation as a treatment for some disorders

Raw Story

Astrocytes — named for their star-like shape — are a type of brain cell as abundant as neurons in the central nervous system, but little is known about their role in brain health and disease. A functioning brain requires healthy astrocytes, and finding strategies to heal or replace damaged astrocytes could help in the treatment of neurological diseases. We found …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Brain cell transplants might be key to beating Alzheimer's, doctors claim

Daily Mail

Alzheimer's is a cruel disease that blights the lives of millions worldwide, slowly robbing them of their memories and independence. Now, scientists at McGill University, Canada, may have found a key to treating the neurological disease — by transplanting brain cells. Scientists believe that replacing damaged astrocytes could help restore some of the lost brain function seen in Alzheimer's, as …

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1 month, 1 week ago

World's first stem cell treatment restores vision, offers new hope to the blind

India Today

A recent Lancet study has revealed that stem-cell transplants using reprogrammed stem cells have brought significant, lasting improvements in vision for people with severely damaged corneas. These patients received corneal cell transplants derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, a cutting-edge approach that appears to offer hope for those with this challenging condition. Three of the four patients experienced major, sustained …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Long-term dynamics of transplanted stem cells revealed

The Hindu

Scientists have mapped the long-term dynamics of transplanted stem cells, shedding light on the challenges and opportunities associated with this medical procedure. The study, published in Nature, reveals that transplants from older donors have significantly fewer surviving stem cells and lose the ability to produce essential blood cell-producing proteins. Despite being performed for over 50 years, many fundamental questions about …

Science Law Medicine Life Sciences

5 months ago

Accident victim’s organs save two lives in Odisha

New Indian Express

CUTTACK/JAGATSINGHPUR: The family of a 58-year-old man, Birendra Prasad Swain, who died following a road accident, has given new hope to two persons by donating his kidneys. Swain, belonging to Redhua in Jagatsinghpur district, met with an accident at Raghunathpur Bazaar on the Cuttack-Paradip state highway on Friday night while returning from a marriage feast. His son, Subhasish Swain, a …

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6 months ago

Only 42.5% trees transplanted in Delhi survived: Forest department

Hindustan Times

The forest and wildlife department has said that of the 1,357 trees transplanted in and around Delhi between 2019 and 2022, only 578 have survived — pointing to a low adaptability rate of the process. He listed a revision of Delhi’s existing tree transplantation policy as one of the key areas the government had looked at since the existing survival …

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54 years, 11 months 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 …

Heart Kidney Pig Transplant Kidney Transplant Pisano Nyu Langone

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, …

Heart Kidney Pig Transplant Nyu Pisano Doctors Remove

6 months, 3 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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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 …

Doctors Kidney Human Pig Patient Transplant Massachusetts

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 …

Heart Pig Transplant Faucette

1 year, 2 months ago

What does it mean to have a uterus transplant? | Explained

The Hindu

On August 23, doctors at the Churchill Hospital Oxford, in the U.K., conducted the country’s first uterus transplant. In the first step of pregnancy, doctors transfer embryos prepared by in vitro fertilisation and cryopreserved to the recipient’s uterus. The recipient is recommended regular follow-ups with doctors for at least a decade after the uterus’s removal to – among other things …

India Women Sweden Live Transplant Uterus Transplants

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 …

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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 …

Body Kidney Human Pig Transplant Nyu Experiment

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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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 …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Wadia hospital to start paediatric heart transplant programme

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: A dearth of specialists, affordable healthcare and infrastructure in the country continues to pose immense challenges to children with congenital heart disease. While Fortis Hospital in the city has a dedicated paediatric heart transplant team, Wadia Hospital’s heart transplant programme will be a boon to patients who cannot obtain essential health services. Doctors said an affordable paediatric transplant programme …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Brain dead woman's heart airlifted by IAF, transplanted into an air warrior

Hindustan Times

A harvested human heart was airlifted from Nagpur to Pune in an IAF plane on Wednesday morning and later transplanted into a recipient admitted to the Army Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Sciences in the western Maharashtra city. The live heart, retrieved from a woman declared brain dead, was successfully transplanted into the recipient, a male air warrior at the Pune-based AICTS, …

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1 year, 9 months ago

'My Brother Would Have Cherished Our Decision': How Organs of a Brain-Dead Man Saved Lives of 4, Their Kin

News 18

During the outbreak of Covid-19, 39-year-old Manikandan Ayyappan would set up ‘langars’ in ‘jhuggis’ in eastern Delhi. While family refusal remains one of the top reasons for lower organ donation rates in India, Ayyappan’s family wanted to go ahead. “My brother would have cherished our decision of giving life to other people even after his death.” How were Ayyappan’s organs …

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1 year, 11 months ago

In a First for MP, Brain Dead Woman's Hands Donated; Recipient Teen Girl from Mumbai

News 18

The hands of a brain dead 52-year-old woman in Indore in Madhya Pradesh were donated for transplantation into a Mumbai-based teen girl, which a health official on Monday said was the first case of its kind in the state and was a “revolution in the field of organ donation”. Indore resident Vinita Khajanchi was admitted to a private hospital here …

Mumbai Organ Donation Donation Hands Organ Khajanchi

1 year, 11 months ago

Woman receives liver and heart transplant during one operation in Dutch first

NL Times

In Groningen, a 35-year-old woman was given a new heart and liver from the same donor during a single operation, the University Medical Center said this week. A double transplant is better than when a patient gets a new heart first and then a new liver, explained a spokesperson from the UMCG. Then, if the patient requires a liver sometime …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Govt assures 100% survival of trees transplanted for Formula-E

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: The government on Tuesday, in a release, said that it has taken necessary precautions to carefully transplant around 200 trees that were removed from the NTR Marg for the upcoming Formula-E race track. Most of the trees were translocated by Tuesday and their survival rate is 100 per cent, the release said. The track finalised by the Federation International …

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A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis

Diver pieces back together smashed marine ecosystem

New research supports brain cell transplantation as a treatment for some disorders

Brain cell transplants might be key to beating Alzheimer's, doctors claim

World's first stem cell treatment restores vision, offers new hope to the blind

Long-term dynamics of transplanted stem cells revealed

Accident victim’s organs save two lives in Odisha

Only 42.5% trees transplanted in Delhi survived: Forest department

Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed

Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney

Alien organs give hope of longer life

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

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

What does it mean to have a uterus transplant? | Explained

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

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

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

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

Wadia hospital to start paediatric heart transplant programme

Brain dead woman's heart airlifted by IAF, transplanted into an air warrior

'My Brother Would Have Cherished Our Decision': How Organs of a Brain-Dead Man Saved Lives of 4, Their Kin

In a First for MP, Brain Dead Woman's Hands Donated; Recipient Teen Girl from Mumbai

Woman receives liver and heart transplant during one operation in Dutch first

Govt assures 100% survival of trees transplanted for Formula-E