751500login-checkMonkey kept alive for 2 years with pig kidney offers hope for humans awaiting transplants |
By Karen Weintraub
A Massachusetts-based company announced Wednesday that it has kept a monkey alive for two years with a pig kidney, the longest an animal has survived with an organ from a different animal. The work marks another substantial step toward solving the human organ shortage by using animals as donors.
The pig donor is born with 69 gene edits, by far the largest number used in an experiment of this kind, performed to try to reduce the risk of rejection, improve survival and eliminate any chance of a pig virus passing to the organ’s new host. Read the article in USA Today.
751500login-checkMonkey kept alive for 2 years with pig kidney offers hope for humans awaiting transplants |