Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a third person, moving xenotransplants closer to trials Recipient had donated a kidney to her mother, then no human organ could be found for her

https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/17/gene-edited-pig-kidney-transplanted-into-third-person-nyu-langone/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8nJO83j4pQDe-o_bkSywCm1y5E7Cl2wJxJtwYqTcxuQST96nS-6Tzbtt_MyklttEyK84FKjz_TPem6nHcvEHpL0PHXTA&_hsmi=339774288&utm_content=339774288&utm_source=hs_email A record-breaking kidney transplant chain Last week, surgeons at Ohio State’s transplant center set an institutional record for a synchronized chain of kidney transplants. Over two days, they transplanted kidneys from 10 donors into 10 recipients. The “chain” begins with one person donating their kidney to an unknown recipient. Each of the recipients had a loved one whose organ wasn’t a match for them, but which did match with someone else in need of a kidney along the chain. Nationwide, there are currently more than 90,000 people on the transplant waitlist in need of a kidney. “This kidney chain removed ten patients from the transplant waitlist, which will hopefully shorten the wait for others,” Amer Rajab, the surgical director of kidney transplantation who led the chain and performed six of the donor surgeries, said in a press release. The successful transplants from living donors occurred just days after the third completed pig-to-human kidney transplant was announced in New York. https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/mediaroom/pressreleaselisting/ohio-state-20-person-living-kidney-donor-transplant-chain?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--OJN0fznVJZ3icaFQDyz4CWmDS7WJtjPrQt14iBJcLeVXKWR_icoc9tiO9ARaUpXubrrbBtpx3b2x6sQ26ySJTyuBDQg&_hsmi=339774288&utm_content=339774288&utm_source=hs_email