Thursday, March 21, 2024

When science save lives.

While in other countries in America, of the Caribbean Islands, people are killing one to the other, in USA, science is saving lives and marching toward the future of making dyalysis a medical treatement of the past. -If kidneys from genetically modified animals can be transplanted on a large scale, dialysis “will become obsolete,” said Dr. Leonardo V. Riella, medical director for kidney transplantation at Mass General. The hospital’s parent organization, Mass General Brigham, developed the transplant program. An exterior view of Massachusetts General Hospital.
Physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where the transplant of a pig kidney took place, said the new kidney began producing urine shortly after the surgery last weekend and the patient’s condition continues to improve.Credit...Michael Dwyer/Alamy https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/health/pig-kidney-organ-transplant.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.eU0.xOMz.6BJCq9Rd_Ncr&smid=url-share

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