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- Pig kidney transplanted into living person for first time
Doctors have performed the first transplant of a genetically modified kidney from a pig into a living human. The four-hour surgery was performed on March 16 at Massachusetts General Hospital, which was also the first hospital to perform a kidney transplant in 1954. more
- Research team reports longest successful transplant of a pig kidney into a human
A pig kidney successfully functioned in a human body for about two months, marking the longest documented case of a xenotransplant of its kind. In July 2023, researchers at NYU Langone Health transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into the body of a 58-year-old man named Maurice Miller, known as Mo, who had a brain tumor and was experiencing brain death. The organ was removed on Wednesday, a predetermined date, after 61 days of study. more
- Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg
Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb. The Weizmann Institute team say their "embryo model", made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo. more
- First toddler receives life-saving gene therapy on NHS
Teddi from Northumberland with a rare and devastating genetic condition has become the first child to be treated on the NHS with a life-saving gene therapy. The drug, called Libmeldy, is the most expensive medicine ever approved for the NHS. more
-Išpopuliarėjus iniciatyvai ES uždrausti bandymus su gyvūnais, mokslininkė pripažįsta: bandymų atsisakyti neįmanoma
Europos piliečių iniciatyva prieš bandymus su gyvūnais viršijo reikalavimą surinkti milijoną patvirtintų parašų – pateikė daugiau nei 1,2 mln. palaikymo pareiškimų ir skelbia, kad įsitraukė rekordinis skaičius šalių skaičius – 22. Tačiau Vilniaus universiteto (VU) Gyvybės mokslų centro mokslininkė dr. Virginija Bukelskienė tikina, kad tyrimų su gyvūnais visiškai atsisakyti neįmanoma. daugiau
- Changing our DNA: 'The age of human therapeutic gene editing is here'
When popular YouTube star Adalia Rose died earlier this year, she looked like a diminutive, sickly woman in her 80s. In reality she was only 15 years old, a victim of progeria, an extremely rare genetic disorder caused by a single mutation in one of 3 billion base pairs that make up human DNA. Completely normal in mind and spirit, children with progeria age at a very rapid pace, typically dying in their teenage years.
- Man given genetically modified pig heart dies
The first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig has died. David Bennett, who had terminal heart disease, survived for two months following the surgery in the US. more
- US surgeons successfully implant genetically altered pig heart in human
US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations. more
- Limit on lab-grown human embryos dropped by stem-cell body
The international body representing stem-cell scientists has torn up a decades-old limit on the length of time that scientists should grow human embryos in the lab, giving more leeway to researchers who are studying human development and disease. more
- ‘I Need to Know I Tried’
In 2019, Dr. Richard Leiter, a palliative care specialist, met a patient and the man’s wife in the intensive care unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The patient, in his 70s, had heart disease and kidney problems. But he had been living at home and doing reasonably well until sepsis, a life-threatening bloodstream infection, sent him to an emergency room. When the kidney palliative care team met with the man’s wife to discuss treatment, it proposed what is known as a time-limited trial, in which life-sustaining treatment continues for an agreed-on period to see how the patient responds. more
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