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Surgeons at NYU Langone Health renowned academic medical center lin New York, have performed the world's first combined heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant on a woman with end-stage kidney disease.
Animals can teach us so many things, like how to live in the moment, to not take life too seriously, and of course, how to love, unconditionally.
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...
‘We filmed it in a rough area of San Francisco. One day, a totally naked guy who was watching us said, “Are you remaking Invasion of the Body Snatchers? The first one was better”’I was still a teenager when I saw the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers and was really affected by it. Two decades later, when I started to think about doing a new version, I went to see Don Siegel, who directed the original. While we were talking, his movie’s male lead, Kevin McCarthy, happened to pop in. They told...
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…
J.K. Rowling’s bestselling children’s book The Christmas Pig is getting a feature film adaptation. The project is in early development in-house at Rowling’s production...
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...
In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill New Jersey woman received a pig kidney transplant and a surgically implanted mechanical heart pump.
Pro-Hamas "encampments" continue to plague campuses across the nation, with some universities taking action while others have capitulated. Columbia University officials have chosen to bend the knee, pledging not to call in law enforcement to clear out the trespassing terrorist supporters.
One hundred or more protesters gathered on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday to participate in an unruly anti-Israel demonstration. The rowdy protests invited hundreds of onlookers, some of whom joined in on the anti-Israel chants on the school's South Lawn. UT Austin is one of many American universities where anti-Israel protests have intensified over recent days, as the Israeli military's war against Hamas continues in the Middle East. The Austin Police Department...