2024年3月21日 · The pig kidney — provided by biotech company co-founded by HMS scientists — was genetically edited to make it more compatible with humans and reduce chance of infection. Longer-term results of the first-of-its-kind transplant, conducted under an FDA compassionate-use protocol, are not yet clear.

2024年12月17日 · Dr. Robert Montgomery, who himself received a human heart transplant in 2018, leads the operation to implant a new kind of modified pig kidney into a living patient for the first time.

2024年5月13日 · Richard "Rick" Slayman, the first human to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, has died almost two months after the procedure. Slayman, who had end-stage kidney disease,...

2024年3月21日 · Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital said they transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a living human for the first time. The 62-year-old recipient has end-stage kidney...

BOSTON – Today, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of the Mass General Brigham health care system, announced the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig (porcine) kidney into a 62-year-old …

2022年6月14日 · They created the UKidney™, a genetically modified pig kidney designed to work in humans. A lab removed three genes from the pig DNA, one being the growth hormone receptor which would have caused the kidney to outgrow the human body, and added six human genes to help regulate the immune and blood clotting system.

2022年5月18日 · Genetically modified kidney xenografts from pigs remained viable and functioning in brain-dead human recipients for 54 hours, without signs of hyperacute rejection. (Funded by Lung Biotechnology.)

2025年2月6日 · Two companies have received FDA approval to conduct clinical trials transplanting genetically modified pig kidneys into patients with kidney failure.

Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham health care system, announced the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig (porcine) kidney into a 62-year-old man living with end-stage kidney disease.

2024年3月21日 · Scientists have been developing genetically engineered pigs as a way to address the critical lack of human organs available for transplant surgeries.