New Jersey
Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
In the first procedure of its kind, a 54-year-old New Jersey woman received a genetically engineered pig kidney and thymus after getting a heart pump.
The kidney used in the latest NYU transplant was procured from a pig with a single genetic editthe removal of a gene that produces a sugar known as alpha gal. This sugar appears on the surface of pig… [+1865 chars]
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