{"id":658748,"date":"2023-09-18T23:52:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T03:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=658748"},"modified":"2023-09-18T23:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T03:52:29","slug":"pig-kidney-successfully-transplanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/658748\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig kidney successfully transplanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/658748\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-658749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/kidney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" \/><\/a>Washington: <\/strong>US surgeons successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a brain dead patient.\u00a0This experiment has ended after 61 days.\u00a0US surgeons announced Thursday that they have performed the longest kidney transplant ever performed.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, scientists believe that such experiments will promote organ transplants from animals to humans.\u00a0This surgery has been done at New York University Langone Transplant Institute.\u00a0University Director Robert Montgomery said, \u201cFor the last two months, since the surgery took place, we have studied a lot and analyzed everything.\u00a0During this time we learned a lot.\u00a0This is hope for our future.\u201d\u00a0Let us tell you that more than 103,000 people in the United States want to get an organ transplant, out of which 88,000 need a kidney. This was the fifth xenotransplant done by Montgomery,<\/p>\n<p>The donor pig came from a herd raised by Virginia-based biotech company Revivicor.\u00a0These pigs are bred, not cloned, which means the process can be more easily scaled up.\u00a0<span class=\"VIpgJd-yAWNEb-VIpgJd-fmcmS-sn54Q\">In January 2022, surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical School performed the world&#8217;s first pig kidney-to-human transplant on a living patient.\u00a0<\/span>However the man died after two months.\u00a0Let us tell you that the science field in the world is progressing so fast that things which seemed impossible have now become possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: US surgeons successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a brain dead patient.\u00a0This experiment has ended after 61 days.\u00a0US surgeons announced Thursday that they have performed the longest kidney transplant ever performed. According to reports, scientists believe that such experiments will promote organ transplants from animals to humans.\u00a0This surgery has been done at New York University Langone Transplant Institute.\u00a0University Director Robert Montgomery said, \u201cFor the last two months, since the surgery took place, we have studied a lot and analyzed everything.\u00a0During this time we learned a lot.\u00a0This is hope for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":658749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658751,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658748\/revisions\/658751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}