The Startup Behind The First Pig-Human Kidney Transplant Is Targeting Hearts And Livers Next [Forbes]
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Biotech startup eGenesis developed a gene-edited kidney that was successfully transplanted into a living patient last week. Its CEO says the company is just getting started. L ast Thursday, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that for the first time, a living human patient had received a kidney transplant from a pig. This scientific breakthrough represents hope for the dozens of people who die every day waiting on an organ transplant, the hospital's transplant director Joren Masden said at a press conference following the announcement. “The dream of transplant researchers – the Holy Grail – has been to use pig organs to supplement human organs to solve the problem of organ shortage,” he said. Of course, it wasn't as simple as just going down to the farm. The kidney was developed by Massachusetts-based startup eGenesis, which has been working on gene-editing porcine organs so that they can be safely transplanted into humans for nearly a decade. But CEO Mike Curtis
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- New Jersey woman receives pig kidney and heart pump [Globe and Mail, The (Toronto, Canada)]Globe and Mail, The
- Grandmother Becomes Second Patient to Receive Kidney From Gene-Edited Pig [The New York Times]The New York Times
- Surgeons Perform World's First Combined Heart Pump And Pig Kidney Transplant—Latest Breakthrough Involving Pig Organ [Forbes]Forbes
- Doctors combine a pig kidney transplant and a heart device in bid to extend a woman’s life [MSNBC.com]MSNBC.com
- New Jersey woman recovering after receiving successful pig kidney transplant [FOX News]FOX News
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