A new kind of gene-edited pig kidney was just transplanted into a person

MIT Technology Review— A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of researchers from NYU Langone Health reports that Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman from New Jersey, has become the second. Her new kidney has just a single genetic modification—an approach that researchers hope…

Reading Eagle—She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump. A New Jersey woman who was near death has received a transplanted pig kidney, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Doctors at NYU Langone Health say 54-year-old Lisa Pisano is recovering well. She is only the second patient ever to receive a pig kidney. The first, a man transplanted last month in Boston, also is faring well. Pisano was far sicker, suffering a combination of heart and kidney failure. It's the latest in a string of attempts to make...

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TheBlaze—Kidney from pig ​transplanted into deathly ill New Jersey woman — and begins working almost immediately. A New Jersey woman is alive and improving after undergoing experimental transplant surgery involving a kidney from a genetically modified pig.Earlier this month, Lisa Pisano — a 54-year-old grandmother from Cookstown, New Jersey, about 20 miles southeast of Trenton — was practically on death's doorstep. She was in desperate need of a kidney transplant, but antibodies in her tissues made finding a match nearly impossible. She was also in heart failure, but because she was on dialysis, doctors...