{"id":185693,"date":"2024-03-21T16:34:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/patient-walking-around-hospital-after-transplant-of-gene-hacked-pig-kidney"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:34:38","slug":"patient-walking-around-hospital-after-transplant-of-gene-hacked-pig-kidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/patient-walking-around-hospital-after-transplant-of-gene-hacked-pig-kidney","title":{"rendered":"Patient Walking Around Hospital After Transplant of Gene-Hacked Pig Kidney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/patient-walking-around-hospital-after-transplant-of-gene-hacked-pig-kidney2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a world\u2019s first, surgeons at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a gene-hacked pig into a living 62-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are hoping the procedure could reduce our reliance on both hard-to-come-by human donor kidneys, and the expensive dialysis machines that treat kidney disease and failure.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the surgeons\u2019 efforts appear to have paid off \u2014 at least for now. The pig kidney started producing urine not long after the surgery last weekend, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/21\/health\/pig-kidney-organ-transplant.html\" class=\"\"><em>New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a><strong>.<\/strong> The patient\u2019s condition also continues to improve, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world\u2019s first, surgeons at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a gene-hacked pig into a living 62-year-old man. Researchers are hoping the procedure could reduce our reliance on both hard-to-come-by human donor kidneys, and the expensive dialysis machines that treat kidney disease and failure. Fortunately, the surgeons\u2019 efforts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}