Working in non-human primates for 758 days! Long term survival demonstrated by organ xenotransplantation
A paper published on the 11th in the journal Nature reported on the successful transplantation of genetically modified pig kidneys into non human primates. Modifying the pig's genome to knock out the antigen coding gene, incorporating human genes, and clearing the pig virus can provide monkeys with a long-term survival rate of about two years...
Is there still hope for xenotransplantation after the death of the world's first pig heart transplant patient?
Beijing Daily client | reporter Wang DanIn January 2022, David Bennett, a 57 year old patient with advanced heart disease, received a pig heart with gene editing, becoming the first patient to receive pig Heart transplantation in human history. Unfortunately, Bennett passed away two months after surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center in the United States, and the cause of death was not announced at that time...