The road toward xenotransplantation, and particularly kidney xenotransplantation, has been rocky, but a new study from Nature Communications shows real promise: consistent transplants of swine kidneys into baboons, with positive long-term survival rates, and using only conventional anti-rejection strategies.
In March of 2024, a new milestone in organ transplantation was achieved: 62-year-old Richard Slayman, who had been suffering acute liver failure and living on dialysis for over a decade, became the first recipient of a pig kidney transplant. Shortly after that, in April, 54-year-old Lisa Pisano became the second recipient of a porcine kidney.
With wait times for human organs as long as several years (at which point it may be too late for the designated recipient), the medical
Xenotransplantation, transplanting animal’s organs into humans, has been studied in research for a long time and is the wave of the future. Human-to-human organ donation
Xenotransplantation, a groundbreaking field in biomedical research, holds immense promise for addressing the critical shortage of organs available for transplantation. Recent advancements, such as the
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