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Doctors Take Another Step Toward Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants With the First Pig Kidney Transplant. The experimental procedure was done on a man experiencing end-stage kidney failure last week who had been on the transplant waiting list for two years.
The experimental procedure was done on a man experiencing end-stage kidney failure last week who had been on the transplant waiting list for two years
“This is wonderful news, and it’s great to see it move into the clinic,” Jayme Locke, an abdominal transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who was not involved in Slayman’s surgery, tells Wired ’s Emily Mullin. The FDA approved the one-time experimental procedure for Slayman under a compassionate-use protocol for people with life-threatening conditions and no alternative treatment options. The FDA has said that individual procedures like the one on Slayton don’t replace the need for a formal clinical trial, the Wall Street Journal notes.
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