New York: Every day many people die while waiting for an organ transplant. People are constantly being encouraged to donate organs. But still, their availability is very less as per the demand. To overcome this, experiments are being done by researchers to transplant the organs of animals into the human body.
In this sequence, such a case has come to the fore, seeing which they are very excited. The transplanted kidney in the human body is working properly for 32 days. This transplant has been done in a person declared brain dead.
This genetically modified pig kidney has been able to function for the longest time after transplant. This has raised hopes in the field of xenotransplant. Transplanting the organs of an animal into a human is called a xenotransplant.
The transplant was done last month by doctors at New York University’s Langone Transplant Institute. This is the fifth such transplant done here. Continuous monitoring is being done regarding this.
The special thing in this experiment is that only one change has been made in the gene of the pig’s kidney. Earlier in the research done in 2021, about 10 changes were made in the kidney gene. This one change has protected the kidney from extremely rapid rejection by the human body.