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Peppa Pig to the Rescue? Man Gets Pig Kidney and Wakes Up a New Person!

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Man Gets Pig Kidney – What Happened Next? In a sci-fi twist, Mr. Tim Andrews, 66, from New Hampshire, became the second person to live with a transplanted pig kidney. If you think this sounds like some lab experiment, think again—this is the new frontier of medicine. On Friday, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) confirmed that […] The post Peppa Pig to the Rescue? Man Gets Pig Kidney and Wakes Up a New Person! appeared first on BioTecNika.

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Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Successfully Xenotransplanted in Living Patient at MGH

There is huge momentum in the field of kidney xenotransplantation, as the FDA approves clinical trials for the first time and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) performs the fourth such operation on record. United Therapeutics has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its Investigational New Drug application to initiate a clinical study of the company’s UKidney, which is derived from a 10 gene-edited source pig…

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