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Doctors combine a pig kidney transplant and a heart device in a bid to extend woman's lifeLisa Pisano's combination of heart and kidney failure left her too sick to qualify for a traditional transplant, and out of options. Then d...24 Apr, 2024, 07.38 PM IST- Big news for Kidney patients: Pig kidney successfully transplanted into a living patientIn a groundbreaking procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital, doctors successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient,...22 Mar, 2024, 02.59 PM IST
- Animal to human organ transplants possible? Here's what scientists claimScientists have said that they are closer to comprehending the best way to turn the human body reactive to an organ donation from another s...26 Jan, 2024, 02.05 AM IST
- Second recipient of pig heart transplant dies after nearly six weeksA 58-year-old man named Lawrence Faucette, who was suffering from heart failure and disqualified from a conventional heart transplant, unde...01 Nov, 2023, 05.52 PM IST
- Pig kidney functions in donated body for two-months: Could this transplant be the end of organ shortages? Medical breakthrough explainedA genetically modified pig kidney has achieved an unprecedented milestone by functioning successfully within a human body for approximately...14 Sep, 2023, 10.28 PM IST
- Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplantsThe latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a decease...16 Aug, 2023, 09.04 PM IST
- Making pig livers humanlike in quest to ease organ shortageWhile regrowing kidneys isn't as far along, "I was completely stunned" at the progress so far, said Dr. Ron Shapiro, a kidney transplant ex...27 Dec, 2022, 09.54 PM IST
- A Very Pig-Hearted GestureThe pig that 'donated' its heart in the Maryland operation was genetically modified so that its heart would not trigger the type of fatal p...22 Jan, 2022, 12.10 AM IST
- In first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patientWhile it's too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for l...11 Jan, 2022, 10.33 AM IST
- Pig kidneys can be a 'potential miracle' for patients waiting for transplant. Read thisA US medical team carried a surgery involving a genetically modified donor animal and a brain dead patient on a ventilator whose family had...21 Oct, 2021, 12.23 PM IST
- In a first, surgeons attached a pig kidney to a human — and it workedAlthough many questions remain to be answered about the long-term consequences of the transplant, which involved a brain-dead patient follo...20 Oct, 2021, 10.24 AM IST
- Medical marvel: Researchers one step closer to creating made-to-order human kidneysMany kidney patients never undergo transplant surgery due to a chronic shortage of donors.06 Feb, 2019, 06.35 PM IST
- Lifesaver: Doctors plan second heart in tummyA Frontier Lifeline team has sought the state transplant authority’s permission to retrieve ‘misfit’ hearts from donors for ‘piggyback tran...10 Dec, 2017, 11.43 AM IST
- Wildlife SOS & Agra Horticulture Club join hands to celebrate Van MahotsavIn a collaborative initiative to create a greener environment, Wildlife SOS and the Horticulture Club of Agra conducted a tree plantation d...08 Jul, 2016, 06.13 PM IST
- Why xenotransplants through pigs are making headlinesBelieve it or not, pigs might soon extend the lives of people waiting for organ donations.10 Apr, 2016, 04.28 AM IST
- Insulin-producing 'mini-stomachs' developed in labScientists have successfully developed 'mini-organs' that produced insulin when transplanted into the mice.21 Feb, 2016, 01.17 PM IST
- US-based Indian Shuvo Roy creates first artificial kidneyUS-based Indian origin researcher Shuvo Roy has created world's first implantable artificial kidney. Roy's creation will be able to mimic k...04 Dec, 2010, 02.32 AM IST
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