Thursday, January 20, 2022

First Ever Genetically Modified Pig-to-Human Kidney Transplant Successfully Completed

 https://www.newsweek.com/first-ever-genetically-modified-pig-human-kidney-transplant-successfully-completed-1671331

Specialists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have, for the first time, successfully transplanted pig kidneys into a human patient.

The xenotransplantation was performed on September 30, 2021, at UAB Hospital. Today, the first peer-reviewed research was published in the American Journal of Transplantation.

1 comment:

  1. yasher koach


    hopefully they will learn to engineer them to match the human body

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