Genetically modified pig kidney keeps man alive for record nine months
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How it spread - 15 original reports, 3 reprints
Thu, 3 September 2026
4 reports- Google News - Top Stories22:30first to report
Genetically modified pig kidney keeps man alive for record nine months The Guardian Patient Who Received Pig Kidney Becomes First To Progress to Human Kidney Transplant Harvard Medical School Pig kidneys successfully transplanted into humans Financial Times Recipients of gene-edited pig kidneys successfully receive human organs STAT Pig kidney kept a man off dialysis for nine months in world first New Scientist
- The Guardian World22:30
Organ kept Tim Andrews off dialysis and acted as a ‘bridge’ while he waited for a human transplant in the US A genetically modified kidney from a pig called Wilma has kept a 66-year-old man with kidney failure alive for a record nine months and successfully acted as a “bridge” to a human transplant in a world first. Tim Andrews was seriously ill with end-stage kidney disease caused by type 2 diabetes and had only a 9% chance of receiving a human kidney within five years, against a more than 40%...
- BBC News World22:31
A man has lived for a record nine months with a transplanted pig kidney while waiting for a human transplant.
1 reprint
- Index.hr (Croatia)4 Sept, 05:28their copy
- Google News - Top Stories22:31
Pig kidney works in human body for 271 days - is this the future of organ transplants? BBC Genetically modified pig kidney keeps man alive for record nine months The Guardian Patient lived with world's first pig kidney transplant for nine months before getting human organ Sky News A Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Still Working After a Record-Setting 9 Months in a Patient WIRED In a First, a Pig Kidney Kept a Patient Alive Until He Got a Human One The New York Times
Fri, 4 September 2026
9 reports- Google News - Top Stories01:38
Pig kidneys successfully transplanted into humans Financial Times Patient Who Received Pig Kidney Becomes First To Progress to Human Kidney Transplant Harvard Medical School Recipients of gene-edited pig kidneys successfully receive human organs STAT Pig kidney kept a man off dialysis for nine months in world first New Scientist Pig kidney works in human body for 271 days - is this the future of organ transplants? BBC
- Die Zeit (Germany)02:59
Forschenden gelingt erstmals die Transplantation einer Schweineniere bis zur Bereitstellung eines menschlichen Organs. Der Patient habe mehrere Monate überbrücken können.
- Der Spiegel (Germany)06:43
In den USA hat ein schwer kranker Mann neun Monate lang mit einer genetisch veränderten Schweineniere überlebt. Nachdem er knapp drei weitere Monate mit Dialyse überstanden hatte, wurde ihm ein menschliches Spenderorgan eingesetzt.
- Dnevnik.hr (Croatia)06:49
- El Mundo (Spain)07:16
Los 271 días que permaneció un estadounidense con el xenotrasplante suponen un récord de duración para un trasplante de animal a persona Leer
- ABC (Spain)07:48
Tim Andrews recibió a los 66 años un riñón de cerdo modificado genéticamente. Vivió con él, sin necesidad de diálisis, 271 días hasta que pudo recibir un riñón humano de un donante. Estos nueve meses no solo representan el periodo más largo que una persona ha logrado vivir con un riñón de cerdo. Su caso también demuestra, según el equipo del hospital General de Massachusetts Brigham, de EE.UU., donde se ha realizado, que los órganos de cerdo pueden utilizarse como un «puente» hasta que se...
2 reprints
- 24sata (Croatia)4 Sept, 08:54their copy
- tportal (Croatia)4 Sept, 11:41their copy
- Telegram.hr (Croatia)09:24
Svinjski organi bi mogli u budućnosti poslužiti kao svojevrsni 'most' do presađivanja ljudskog bubrega
- Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italy)12:26
Per 271 giorni un rene di maiale ha svolto il lavoro di un rene umano. Ha funzionato abbastanza a lungo da permettere a un uomo di 66 anni con insufficienza renale terminale di vivere senza dialisi mentre aspettava un organo umano. Poi il rene suino ha ceduto, è stato rimosso e, 82 giorni dopo, il […] L'articolo La nuova frontiera dello xenotrapianto, il rene di maiale geneticamente modificato diventa un “ponte” in attesa di quello umano proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano .
- Google News - Top Stories20:33
Pig kidney works for a record 271 days inside the body of American patient NBC News Patient Who Received Pig Kidney Becomes First To Progress to Human Kidney Transplant Harvard Medical School Pig kidneys successfully transplanted into humans Financial Times Pig Kidneys Yield ‘Life-Changing’ Independence From Dialysis Forbes In a First, a Pig Kidney Kept a Patient Alive Until He Got a Human One The New York Times
Sat, 5 September 2026
1 report- Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italy)12:14
Un pensionato del New Hampshire è diventato il primo caso al mondo di sopravvivenza prolungata con un rene di maiale trapiantato nel corpo, prima di ricevere in seguito un organo umano. Tim Andrews, 67 anni, ha convissuto per 271 giorni con il rene animale. Quasi nove mesi: un record mondiale per questo tipo di procedura. […] L'articolo “Sono vivo grazie al rene di un maiale, è stato nel mio corpo per 271 giorni. Se non me l’avessero trapiantato, non ce l’avrei fatta a superare un altro anno”:...
Sun, 6 September 2026
1 report- iRozhlas (Czechia)14:30
Ledvina transplantovaná z prasete udržela šestašedesátiletého muže naživu rekordních devět měsíců, než dostal tento orgán od lidského dárce. Podle týmu z nemocnice Massachusetts General Brigham jejich práce ukazuje, že prasečí orgány lze použít jako most, dokud nebudou k dispozici ty od lidských dárců. Pro Radiožurnál tuto problematiku osvětlil profesor Jiří Froněk, přednosta kliniky transplantační chirurgie pražského IKEM.