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Tissue from a pig kidney that has been transplanted into a brain-dead man

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Pig kidney transplant in brain-dead man still functions after a month

It has been 32 days since Maurice Miller, a dead man who is being kept on life support, received a genetically modified pig kidney, and it is still functioning with no signs of rejection or infection

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A transmission electron micrograph of HIV virus particles (pink) replicating from the plasma membrane of an infected immune cell

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Umbilical blood stem cell transplant puts woman in HIV remission

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HIV (green) infecting an immune cell

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Third person ‘cured’ of HIV after receiving stem cell cancer treatment

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Landmark pig heart transplant was a big leap forward in 2022

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A liver transplant

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Transplanted livers can keep working for a total of over 100 years

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OrganEx technology reverses certain deleterious effects of prolonged ischemia. Representative images of electrocardiogram tracings in the heart(top), immunostainings for albumin in the liver(middle),and actin in the kidney(bottom).The images on the left side represent the organs subjected to a control perfusion, while the images on the right represents the organs subjected to perfusion with theOrganEx technology. Tissue integrity and certain cellular functions have been restored by theOrganEx technology one hour after circulatory arrest.

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Blood substitute repairs damaged organs hours after heart stops

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Nader Moazami, MD, (right) surgical director of heart transplantation at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, and cardiothoracic physician assistant Amanda Merrifield prepare to remove the heart from a recently deceased donor on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in New York, NY.

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Modified pig hearts transplanted into dead people kept on life support

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A cell sample being pipetted into a multi-well plate containing growth nutrient medium

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Experimental umbilical cord stem cell therapy treats rare disease

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Pierre-Alain Clavien and Philipp Dutkowski

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Damaged liver repaired inside machine for three days before transplant

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A microscopy image of a microgel with the protein Fas ligand on its surface

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Protein gel could help treat type 1 diabetes

The gel, which was implanted alongside a pancreatic cell transplant in monkeys with type 1 diabetes, releases a protein that kills overactive immune cells, preventing the pancreatic cells from being rejected

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Electric field keeps kidney cells powered up while organs are on ice

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Lung with switched blood type is step towards universal donor organs

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Are genetically modified pig organs the future of transplants?

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Genetically modified pig kidneys transplanted into a brain-dead person

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