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Organ Transplant Shortage

The standing gap between patients waiting for donor organs and the number of transplants performed, and the waitlist deaths that result.

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United Therapeutics launches world's first pig-kidney clinical trial

United Therapeutics is sponsoring the first xenotransplant clinical trial. Its first patient got a 10-edit pig kidney at NYU Langone in November. The longest a gene-edited pig kidney has worked in a person is 271 days, against years or decades for a human donor organ.

Publishers:gizmodo.com

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