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Pig kidney transplanted into living human for the first time

A genetically modified pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a living human – and the recipient is expected to leave hospital soon

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Drs. Kawai and Elias will be transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney

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Human eyeball successfully transplanted for the first time

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Aaron James with Eduardo Rodriguez

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Surgeons perform the second ever pig-to-human heart transplant

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Kidneys for transplantation could come from babies who die at birth

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Anti-ageing drugs could make more organs viable for transplants

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Human kidneys have been partially grown in pigs for the first time

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Tissue from a pig kidney that has been transplanted into a brain-dead man

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Pig kidney transplant in brain-dead man still functions after a month

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A transmission electron micrograph of HIV virus particles (pink) replicating from the plasma membrane of an infected immune cell

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Umbilical blood stem cell transplant puts woman in HIV remission

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HIV (green) infecting an immune cell

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Third person 'cured' of HIV after receiving stem cell cancer treatment

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Landmark pig heart transplant was a big leap forward in 2022

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Landmark pig heart transplant was a big leap forward in 2022

On 7 January, a man with severe heart failure received a genetically modified pig's heart. Although he died two months later, the procedure marked a step towards xenotransplantation

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A liver transplant

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Transplanted livers can keep working for a total of over 100 years

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OrganEx technology reverses certain deleterious effects of prolonged ischemia. Representative images of electrocardiogram tracings in the heart(top), immunostainings for albumin in the liver(middle),and actin in the kidney(bottom).The images on the left side represent the organs subjected to a control perfusion, while the images on the right represents the organs subjected to perfusion with theOrganEx technology. Tissue integrity and certain cellular functions have been restored by theOrganEx technology one hour after circulatory arrest.

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Blood substitute repairs damaged organs hours after heart stops

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Nader Moazami, MD, (right) surgical director of heart transplantation at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, and cardiothoracic physician assistant Amanda Merrifield prepare to remove the heart from a recently deceased donor on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in New York, NY.

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Modified pig hearts transplanted into dead people kept on life support

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A cell sample being pipetted into a multi-well plate containing growth nutrient medium

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Experimental umbilical cord stem cell therapy treats rare disease

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