Medical Breakthrough: Pig Kidney Keeps US Patient Alive Without Dialysis for 271 Days
A genetically edited pig kidney has functioned successfully inside a living human patient for 271 days, enabling a 66-year-old American man with end-stage kidney disease to stay off dialysis for about nine months before he eventually received a human donor kidney. The achievement, described by Doctors as the longest recorded dialysis-free survival after a pig-kidney…