An Indian-origin urologist played a key role as a team of doctors at University of California Health performed the first successful human bladder transplant. Inderbir Gill, who studied in Punjab, was part of the medical breakthrough that will be of help to individuals with bladder dysfunction caused by long-term dialysis. The surgery was successfully completed…
On the last day of March, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital began an operation that they hoped might lead to a permanent change in how kidneys are transplanted in people. That morning’s patient was not a person. It was a pig, lying anesthetized on a table. The pig was missing one kidney and needed an…
An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal-to-human transplants. Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU…
Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig into a 66-year-old man with kidney failure last month, Massachusetts General Hospital announced on Friday. It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new…
Bianca Perea, a 32-year-old trainee lawyer from Manchester, has been declared cancer-free after becoming the first person in the UK to undergo a liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer. In November 2021, the woman was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer that had spread to her liver. The doctors initially told her the focus would…
NEW YORK: An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ — and notably, she isn’t as sick as prior recipients who…
Japan Transplants Pig Kidney into Monkey: विज्ञान ने ऐसी ऊंचाइयों को छुआ है जो कभी इंसान के लिए कल्पना से परे थीं. खासकर हेल्थ सेक्टर में विज्ञान ने कठिन समस्याओं को हल करने में बड़ी सफलता हासिल की है. इसी कड़ी में जापानी स्टार्टअप पोर्मेडटेक ने सोमवार (25 नवंबर) को घोषणा की कि उन्होंने आनुवंशिक…