In March, Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted the genetically-edited pig kidney into Rick Slayman, a 62-year-old man living with end-stage kidney disease.
New York: Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, US, have successfully conducted a transplant of pig kidneys into a brain-dead human. In the days-long experiment, the organs implanted on a 57-year-old male brain-dead patient produced urine and were not rejected. However, this is not the first such surgery. In September 2021, a study […]