62-year-old Richard Slayman, the world’s first living human recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney, was able to go home from the hospital. Slayman’s new kidney appears to be functioning as expected two weeks post-surgery.
The new era of animal-to-human kidney transplantation is off to a good start. On Wednesday, 62-year-old Richard Slayman, the world’s first living human recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney , was able to go home from the hospital. Slayman’s new kidney appears to be functioning as expected two weeks post-surgery.
Animal-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has become a promising avenue for addressing the long-standing shortage of donated organs, though it’s taken many decades to reach this point. Recent innovations in gene-editing technology have made it possible for scientists to create pigs that are more compatible with human biology. And the hope is that the organs from these pigs can be safely tolerated by the recipient’s immune system. Over the past few years, there have been several early successful tests of the technology in humans
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