A medical team at Hospital Universitario La Paz in Madrid has developed an experimental technique aimed at enabling the recipient’s body to tolerate a transplanted organ as if it were its own. The procedure, based on a “double graft”, combines organ transplantation with hematopoietic stem cells from the same donor, which undergo a purification process [...]
Tom Andrews preparing for surgery. KateFlock/Massachusetts General Hospital. Tim Andrews, 66, received a transplant of a genetically modified porcine kidney in January 2025. The procedure was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and Andrews lived with the kidney for 271 days. During that period, he was able to stop dialysis, which had kept him alive [...]
This operation, a pioneer in the field of medicine, has been carried out by a team of surgeons from the University of Maryland (USA). In it, the patient, David Bennett, 57, diagnosed with heart disease without treatment options through an ordinary transplant, received a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig. This achievement constitutes an [...]
