Towana Looney has become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant, thriving for 61 days with a gene-edited pig kidney. Her success marks a significant milestone in xenotransplantation, ...
Unique protocol extends heart transplant survival in nonhuman primates without immune suppression, addressing organ rejection in groundbreaking research.
Over 37 years ago, when Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant surgery on Louis Washkansky, a 53-year-old South African grocer with chronic heart disease, science lit up a way of ...