Breakthrough in Kidney Transplants
Researchers have achieved a major medical breakthrough by creating human kidney organoids and transplanting them into pigs.
A team from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Spain successfully combined human kidney organoids with pig kidneys and transplanted them back into the same animal, creating the world's first functional human-pig hybrid kidney.
This pioneering technology could be a significant step toward repairing damaged organs before transplantation.
- Human kidney organoids were created and transplanted into pigs.
- The organoids were combined with pig kidneys and transplanted back into the same animal.
- The technology was developed by a research team from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC).
Author's summary: Pigs receive world's first kidney transplants grown with human organoid tissue.