One of the long-time dreams of medical science is to help people naturally regenerate organs, or even limbs – and thanks to porcine tissues, we may be one small step closer to that goal!
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.
A remarkable experiment published in 2022 described an entirely novel way of curing blindness in people suffering from keratoconus, a condition caused by thinning in the cornea. They did this using nothing but rendered pig’s skin. The results were extremely positive and pointed towards the potential of using swine collagen as an alternative to expensive surgery for corneal implants.
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.
For proxy studies into the immune system, swine are proving to be one of the most reliable sources of data. Their immune system is quite similar to human immune systems in many ways, allowing for a wide range of useful research that continues to help save lives!
Porcine hearts are helping to save lives! One of the most exciting areas of cardiac research focuses on the use of swine hearts to research, or
Collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body, an essential ‘building block’ that holds our bodies together. Collagen is found in nearly all major tissues and organs in the body and is particularly important for its role in making up connective tissues such as skin, bones, muscles, and cartilage.
To further support you in your biomedical research, Animal Biotech Industries, Inc. offers essential tools like our Porcine Growth Chart. Read on to learn the importance of Porcine Growth Charts in biomedical research and how you can use them to further your research.
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
Can pigs’ brains teach us about human neurology and childhood development? Absolutely. Research shows, over and over, that porcine biology is surprisingly similar to humans,
In 1979, the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine published this seminal research review, an overview of similarities between the bodies of humans and swine. It
Stents have long been a part of the lives of people. It is critical to keep clots and emboli in check to maintain the vascular
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