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| Woman receives pig kidney transplant, walks out of hospital days later: ‘Second chance' |
| 2024-12-21 |
| [FoxNews] An Alabama woman has successfully received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health. This was the seventh pig organ transplant completed by NYU Langone surgeons. Towana Looney, 53, miraculously walked out of the hospital just a few days following the procedure. In an NYU Langone press conference, Looney expressed feeling "overjoyed" and "blessed to have received this gift – a second chance at life." "I want to give courage to those out there on dialysis," she said. Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst and NYU Langone clinical professor of medicine, joined "America Reports" on Wednesday to share how this should bring hope for the future of transplant medicine. "We have a great shortage of body organs," he said. "And even if we get people to donate, we’re still going to have a big shortage … so we’ve got to do something." "We can bio-engineer them, or we can use them from other species, [which is] called xenotransplant." |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 3D printing a compatible tissue should be a thing. IMHO, the press to push 'printed meat' is a way to expand that market. I hate that. It is a lost focus of that medical upgrade. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-12-21 14:22 |
| #5 Fauci’s bad, but not all researchers are bad. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-12-21 10:46 |
| #4 "Why do I smell like bacon?" |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-12-21 10:34 |
| #3 Farewell Jigsaw Man (Niven). |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-12-21 09:30 |
| #2 Now if Mossad can duplicate the Pager thing but target kidneys, I can see an amusing outcome to this story. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2024-12-21 09:13 |
| #1 ...but now she can only eat kosher. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-12-21 07:44 |