#XenoTransplantation

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#SecularHumanism #Transhumanism #Humanist #Transhumanist #Xenotransplantation

Article: "John Lennon's 'Imagine' and Secular Humanism":

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/lennon-1.html

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The future of organ transplants? In #xenotransplantation, adding αIL-15 helped pig kidney grafts last longer in primates by reshaping NK cells — key drivers of rejection.

💡 Targeting the immune system smarter = better graft survival. tinyurl.com/5bu2ck6f

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#SecularHumanism #Transhumanism #Humanist #Transhumanist #Xenotransplantation

Article: "John Lennon's 'Imagine' and Secular Humanism":

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/lennon-1.html

"No Righteousness of Our Own" KJV Bible Ver

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Check out the AJT XenoBulletin where you will find updates on activity in Xenotransplantation.
www.amjtransplant.org/news-do
#Xenotransplantation

✅ Avoiding #xenotransplantation risks

Xenotransplantation carries preventable risks: placing animal organs into immunosuppressed patients could allow novel pathogens to spill over to humans.

Policy should instead act on the many safer, expert‑recommended improvements to human organ donation.

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#SecularHumanism #Transhumanism #Humanist #Transhumanist #Xenotransplantation

Article: "John Lennon's 'Imagine' and Secular Humanism":

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/lennon-1.html

"No Righteousness of Our Own" KJV Bible Ver

2025 World Transplant Congress, #WTC2025, experts from around the world presented significant advancements in xenotransplantation, including the first successful multitransgenic pig heart and kidney transplants into living recipients #xenotransplantation tinyurl.com/aed65y6n

📢 A NEW #ISHLT Consensus Statement on clinical cardiac #xenotransplantation is now available. 📖💡🫀 This document lays out the scientific, clinical, and regulatory blueprint to move pig-to-human #hearttransplantation from possibility to disciplined progress.

Read the publication at 🔗 bit.ly/4s1gecC

The March issue is now online!

👉 Read our latest articles!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652796/2026/299/3

#genetherapy #epilepsy #alzheimers #Porphyromonas #granulomatosis #polyangiitis #lungdisease #acetaminophen #thromboembolism #liver #cirrhosis #xenotransplantation #statins #SGLT2

#ISHLT2026 features 3️⃣ General Sessions with the human stories that are driving progress in 🫀 + 🫁 failure + transplantation, unique featured abstracts, and invited presentations on #xenotransplantation + space medicine. 🫀 🫁🚀

Learn more: 🔗 https://bit.ly/48L5Igs

#MedSky #TransplantSky

February 2026 - Special Issue on Xenotransplantation Xenotransplantation is frequently presented in popular media as a forthcoming solution to the global organ shortage. However, this narrative often downplays the significant scientific, ethical, and go...

#Xenotransplantation is presented as a solution to the global organ shortage, despite ongoing scientific, ethical, & regulatory concerns.

This new issue from @lynncornell.bsky.social explores these questions from diverse perspectives.

Check out some highlights:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/februa...

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Article: "John Lennon's 'Imagine' and Secular Humanism":

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/lennon-1.html

"No Righteousness of Our Own" KJV Bible Ver

From quantum computing to mRNA therapeutics: seven technologies to watch in 2026 Nature’s round-up of innovations that are poised to make a splash in the year ahead.

🧵 One of @nature.com's “technologies to watch in 2026”? #Xenotransplantation.

🔗 shorturl.at/eVjFp

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

A milestone in liver xenotransplantation: The first 10-gene-edited pig-to-living-human auxiliary transplantation and the road ahead
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
#liver #xenotransplantation
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豚クローン・バイブルシリーズ第3回公開。
1980年代から2026年現在のTim Andrews氏271日生存→人間腎臓移行まで、異種移植の歴史を時系列で追いました。
CRISPRの加速、中国・米国の競争、動物権利の声、そして「進歩の代償」をニーチェやハイデッガーで考察。
生命を資源化する技術が、人間性をどう変えるか…。
ビジュアル豊富にまとめました。興味ある方はぜひ。
note.com/akira_discip...
#Xenotransplantation #Bioethics #豚クローンバイブル

‘The first one that went across the bridge’: Man who received pig kidney transplant now has a human organ | CNN One year ago, Tim Andrews was among the world’s first recipients of a genetically modified pig kidney. Now, he is the first in that small group of pioneers to go on to receive a human kidney.

A bridge or a destination? How Tim Andrews became the 1st to have a #pig and then a #kidney #transplant He’s a brave man, who I got to know a little on his journey #XenoTransplantation #OrganDonation www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/h...

In xenotransplantation, inflammation can make or break success. Cracking the immune code with biomarkers and IL-6 blockers could be the difference between rejection and a lifesaving graft.#TXPforAll #Xenotransplantation tinyurl.com/yzzwxhnv

What Kind of Social Preparations Are Needed for Xenotransplantation? A Survey Study of the Japanese General Public Introduction With the advent of genome editing technology, xenotransplantation has been attracting attention in recent years as a potential solution to the shortage of organs for transplantation. In...

New study on social acceptance of #xenotransplantation in Japan:
🐖 Only 1.7% ranked it as their first choice
🐖 77% would feel uncomfortable if suggested by a doctor
🐖 61% would decline the procedure
🐖 88% fear infection from animal-derived pathogens

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pig organ transplants could one day be superior to human ones, says expert Surgeon leading xenotransplantation trial aimed at solving shortage of human organs says edits can lessen risk of rejection A leading surgeon behind a clinical trial of transplanting pig kidneys into...

Pig organ transplants could one day be superior to human ones, says expert #Science #HealthandMedicine #Transplantation #Xenotransplantation #OrganTransplant #MedicalResearch

When will scientists stop playing God? #biotech #science #GeneEditing #xenotransplantation #CRISPR #DNA #health 💭

We recently had an ✨incredible✨ discussion on kidney xenotransplantation with xeno recipients, Towana Looney and Timothy Andrews!
Stay tuned to @kidney.org for the full discussion!
#nkf #xeno #xenotransplantation #kidney #nationalkidneyfoundation

New Research Letter to read! The complexity of public attitudes towards #xenotransplantation.

➡️ A web survey among the Swedish population.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/joim.70054

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World's First Successful Liver Xenotransplantation Achieved in China China performs groundbreaking pig liver xenotransplantation, offering hope for organ shortage solutions.

World's First Successful Liver Xenotransplantation Achieved in China

#xenotransplantation #geneticallymodified #pig #liver #transplant

✂️ #CRISPR research by Dr. George Church @geochurch.bsky.social inactivated all 62 copies of porcine endogenous retrovirus.

🐖 Now, eGenesis at @wyssinstitute.bsky.social & @harvardmed.bsky.social builds upon this work to develop safe pig organs for #xenotransplantation: https://bit.ly/4iAZKV7

Check out the latest issue of The Innovation Medicine!!! Volume 3, Issue 4 is now online!
www.the-innovation.org/medicine/art...
#Medicine #PublicHealth #OrganRegeneration #xenotransplantation #Microplastics #Cancer #biomarkers #longcovid #preeclampsia #LungCancer #aging

Paper reports on clinical xenogeneic heart transplantation. Lessons from the Second Patient," offering a groundbreaking perspective on what we've learned, what's possible, and the future of cross-species heart transplantation. #Xenotransplantation tinyurl.com/3hyjr3p8

First pig lung transplanted into brain-dead human maintains function for 216 hours! How close are we to a “miracle of life” for end-stage lung disease patients?
doi.org/10.59717/j.x...
#Medicine #xenotransplantation #lungdisease

BREAKING: Scientists cracked the code on pig organ transplants! 🚨 A brain-dead patient received a pig organ WITHOUT rejection. This could END transplant waiting lists. The future is NOW. #OrganTransplant #MedicalBreakthrough #Xenotransplantation #Science #Nature

Physiology and immunology of pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant - Nature Xenotransplantation of genetically-modified pig kidneys offers a solution to the scarcity of organs for end-stage renal disease patients.1 We performed a 61-day alpha-Gal knock-out pig kidney and thymic autograft transplant into a nephrectomized brain-dead human using clinically approved immunosuppression, without CD40 blockade or additional genetic modification. Hemodynamic and electrolyte stability and dialysis independence were achieved. Post-operative day (POD) 10 biopsies revealed glomerular IgM and IgA deposition, activation of early complement components and mesangiolysis with stable renal function without proteinuria, a phenotype not seen in allotransplantation. On POD 33, an abrupt increase in serum creatinine was associated with antibody-mediated rejection and increased donor-specific IgG. Plasma exchange, C3/C3b inhibition and rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (rATG), completely reversed xenograft rejection. Pre-existing donor-reactive T cell clones expanded progressively in the circulation post-transplant, acquired an effector transcriptional profile and were detected in the POD 33 rejecting xenograft prior to rATG treatment. This study provides the first long-term physiologic, immunologic, and infectious disease monitoring of a pig-to-human kidney xenotransplant and indicates that pre-existing xenoreactive T cells and induced antibodies to unknown epitope(s) present a major challenge, despite significant immunosuppression. It also demonstrates that a minimally gene-edited pig kidney can support long-term life-sustaining physiologic functions in a human.

A detailed analysis of the immune response to a pig-to-human kidney transplant in a brain-dead patient over a period of two months is reported in two studies in Nature. Read here: spklr.io/63329BMpeR and here: spklr.io/63321BMpeT

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🔬 Meet Karen Maschke, Senior Research Scholar at HC! 🧠

She studies xenotransplantation—using gene-edited 🐖 pig kidneys to address the organ shortage. 💉

🚨 The FDA just approved the first clinical trial!

🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/44n2AHR
#Bioethics #Xenotransplantation