On September 20, Lawrence Faucette, a 58-year-old with terminal heart disease, became the world's second recipient of a genetically modified pig heart transplant
Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them.
After being transplanted into surrogate pig mothers, the humanised kidneys in development exhibited regular structure and tubule formation within a span of 28 days.
The LaCONES-CCMB study to develop an efficient way of detecting and quantifying Androstenone among boars was published in peer reviewed journal MethodsX (published by Elsevier) on April 14, 2023