Then doctors at NYU Langone Health devised a novel one-two punch: Implant a mechanical pump to keep her heart beating and days later transplant a kidney from a genetically modified pig.

In January, he had an experimental cross-species transplant of a kidney ... first person to receive a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney. The organ failed due to limited ...

A very different kind of “hog farm” being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited ...

The pig liver began producing bile two hours after the transplant ... “The heart functions as a pump to pump blood to the whole human body, and the major function of the kidney is to produce ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had to see if their method would work in a pig. By Gina Kolata On the ...

But the devil is in the details Woman Becomes First Person to Receive Both Pig Kidney Transplant and Heart Pump A woman with life-threatening heart and kidney disease became the second person ever ...

Other researchers are considering whether GalSafe pigs can also be used for heart valves and skin grafts for human patients. The NYU kidney transplant experiment should pave the way for trials in ...

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after ...

A 54-year-old grandmother - the first person to receive a mechanical heart pump along with a gene-edited pig kidney has died, as revealed by NYU Langone Health. Lisa Pisano received the transplant ...