March 26, 2024
After a total of 69 rejection-preventing gene edits, history has been made with the first-ever successful transplantation of a pig kidney into a human patient. Xenotransplantation within reach Organ transplantation has been one of modern medicine’s biggest triumphs, helping to save innumerable lives. It is also viewed as one of the pathways to life extension....
June 27, 2023
For the first time in history, scientists have been able to freeze, preserve, rewarm, and transplant rat kidneys with a new method of organ cryopreservation [1]. The rewarming problem Today, organ transplantation is severely limited by the fact that organs can only be preserved for a short time in near-freezing temperatures. Long-term cryopreservation of...