Tag: Organ Transplants

Chinese scientists announced the world’s first successful transplantation of a genetically modified pig liver into a brain-dead patient. This represents an important step towards routinely using pig organs to save human lives [1]. Where do we get spare parts? The shortage of organs for transplantation is a major cause of mortality, but transplantation also plays...

After a total of 69 rejection-preventing gene edits, history has been made with the first-ever successful transplantation of a pig kidney into a human patient. Xenotransplantation within reach Organ transplantation has been one of modern medicine’s biggest triumphs, helping to save innumerable lives. It is also viewed as one of the pathways to life extension....

  For the first time in history, scientists have been able to freeze, preserve, rewarm, and transplant rat kidneys with a new method of organ cryopreservation [1]. The rewarming problem Today, organ transplantation is severely limited by the fact that organs can only be preserved for a short time in near-freezing temperatures. Long-term cryopreservation of...