Some more WIP shots for my Half-Life Alyx mod: Xenotransplant - where a Vortigaunt makes a strange new house a home ✌️👽

Jane Goodall quote: 'They were all talking happily about breeding pigs for xenotransplant, dogs, and so on. I felt like an alien in a world full of people with no empathy.'
Reminder : Veganism is NOT a diet. It's an ethical stance against all kind of exploitation of animals.

With tremendous joy, I share that our patient who received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant was discharged home today after removal of his dialysis access. We hope that this is a first step that will bring hope to many patients waiting for a kidney transplant #xenotransplant

On this day in 1984, Baby Fae was the first infant to receive a xenotransplant heart from a baboon in an operation performed by Leonard Bailey. She survived 21 days, longer than anyone expected. The failure was likely due to rejection and blood incompatibility.

'First clinical-grade porcine kidney xenotransplant using a human decedent model' doi.org/10.1111/ajt.16…

On Oct 6th 2020, a group of veterinarians, neurosurgeons and scientists gathered to xenotransplant porcine #MGE cells into an epileptic sea lion named Cronutt. Today, one year later Cronutt lives a 'seizure free, no side effects' life /1

Xenotransplant donorcycle

NEJM has this week published the full report of the recent pig to human heart xenotransplant. After 49 days it seems the graft showed no typical features of rejection and more research is required to evaluate the reasons for eventual heart failure.

Monkeys, including wild-caught long-tailed #macaques from #Mauritius , lost their lives in brutal xenotransplant experiment MassGeneral News in USA; kidneys were removed, replaced by those from mini-pigs (also killed). Please speak up: tinyurl.com/yfvehpy6

🐽🫀PIG HEART XENOTRANSPLANT VID!🐖🐽

I'm not sure I've ever made a video with more throwaway references and (bad) gags, definitely not one turned around in 2 days!

But wow what a fascinating subject. I'm in awe of the collective scientific achievements youtu.be/0d8svvqX1c0

Honored to co-chair this #NIH #NHLBI workshop on DCD and xenotransplant. Fantastic discussions on the science as well as ethical issues that will set research priorities ⁦going forward William F Parker, MD, PhD⁩ ⁦Matthew Hartwig⁩ ⁦Peter Reese⁩ ⁦Ciara M. Shaver⁩ ⁦⁦

#JACCIMG images & outcome of the 1st genetically modified porcine cardiac xenotransplant. Despite preserved #LVEF , progressive ⬆️ myocardial thickness, echogenicity, & worse #echofirst strain until death @ 60 days. bit.ly/3Jp1ykb

#transplant #ACC23 #WCCardio

In one of the world's first to use genetically engineered pig livers for xenotransplant, Chinese scientists have successfully attached a gene-edited pig liver to a brain-dead patient, which has functioned normally for 96 hrs, at a hospital in NW China's Xi'an. #ChinaBreakthrough

Good article. I believe Gain of Function Research must be globally banned. The consequences of a mishap are uncontrollable and similar to Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Years ago, I was part of a ICMR research on xenotransplant in India.

Original Article by Paige M. Porrett et al: “First clinical-grade porcine kidney xenotransplant using a human decedent model.” doi.org/10.1111/ajt.16…

Listening to Dr. Bartley Griffith, it's evident the pig xenotransplant was not AN event, but a series of unrelated breakthroughs in genetics, immunology, & surgery strung together by great minds, culminating in this moon-landing equivalent in medicine👏👏 #STS2022 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Amazing innovation UAB Surgery UAB Nephrology Dr. Jayme Locke presented Clinical Xenotransplant Updates, UAB experience AmericanTransplantCongress #ATCBoston2022

10 facts about pigs in scientific research 🐖🔬

#AnimalResearch #Pigs #AnimalFacts #DYK #xenotransplant #organtransplant

Who better than Stanford Medicine's own Kiran Khush to be co-chairing this NIH NHLBI session on DCDD and xenotransplant?
Stanford Department of Medicine Stanford CVI @Stanford Jeff Teuteberg Eldrin Lewis Ronald Witteles Robert Harrington Sunny Varshney, MD

Learn more about our kidney #xenotransplant Mass General Transplant
This short video provides an overview of the rationale, the details about the immunosuppression used, and the precautions taken in our study. Click on the second video in the video section @ leoriella.com