These Mini-Pigs Just Grew Human-Like Teeth—Here’s Why It Matters
That must have been one heck of a toothy smile—imagine regular pig teeth growing next to bioengineered human-ish ones. After ...
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Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants Hit Long-Awaited Testing Milestone
Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...
Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
FDA approves pig organ transplant trials for patients with kidney failure
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
Human-like teeth successfully grown in a pig’s mouth
For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.
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Surgeons Perform Second Pig Kidney Transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
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The science behind the first pig-organ transplant trial in humans
The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.
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NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after MGH transplant
A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be ...
Another Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
eGenesis isn’t the only company developing pig organs for human transplant. In February, the FDA approved the first large ...
MGH completes its second pig-to-human kidney transplant
A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...
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Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
He’ll be the first in a three-patient study and is the second person currently living in the world with a pig kidney. The team at Massachusetts General used an organ developed by Cambridge ...