As researchers mark the loss of the first living recipient of a pig kidney, they share what they’ve learnt about xenotransplantation.
The world's first living recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney passed away weeks after receiving the transplantation.
Rick Slayman, 62, became the first-ever recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney at Massachusetts General Hospital on March 16. Slayman had end-stage kidney disease and previously received a human kidney ...
The beginning of Lisa Pisano's story isn't unusual. Like more than a half-million Americans, Pisano required routine dialysis ...
Rick Slayman, who in March became the first living person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has died. One of his doctors talks about what was learned from the historic transplant.
Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago saved Arthur Gillespie's life through a double-lung transplant that took place in ...
Platelets help blood clot, but they have a short shelf life. With blood in short supply, synthetic platelets could help meet ...
Our family is deeply saddened about the sudden passing of our beloved Rick but take great comfort knowing he inspired so many ...
Downtown Silver Spring’s United Therapeutics achieved a major milestone: the world’s first successful UThymoKidney pig-to-human kidney transplant took place on April 12th.
The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been completed ... She had both heart and kidney failure but was not a candidate for a combined ...
(CNN) - The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney ... both heart and kidney failure but was not a candidate for a combined heart and ...
This marks the second time a modified pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. Pisano, who is a grandmother, was suffering from heart failure and end-stage kidney disease. She also ...