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Surgeons remove pig kidney transplant from woman - Enlarge (credit: Courtesy of NYU Langone)

Surgeons in New York... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2028749 #organtransplants #syndication #pigkidney #health

For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without immediate rejection, thanks to gene editing that removed a sugar molecule from the pig cells. The kidney, attached to a deceased donor's blood vessels, functioned normally for two days and filtered waste and urine. This breakthrough could pave the way for using animal organs to address the shortage of human organs for transplant. #pigkidney #geneediting #xenotransplantation. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/20/health/human-pig-kidney-transplant-scli-intl-scn/index.html