{"id":3108,"date":"2025-04-15T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/fda-clears-trial-pig-livers-dialysis-liver-failure\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:02:19","slug":"fda-clears-trial-pig-livers-dialysis-liver-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/fda-clears-trial-pig-livers-dialysis-liver-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA OKs trial of pig livers as dialysis-like treatment for liver failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    FDA OKs trial of pig livers as dialysis-like treatment for liver failure<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. researchers will soon test whether\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pig-liver-kidneys-transplants-penn-ba9b2d181d26425cc4927ad6c55f79f7\">livers from a gene-edited pig<\/a>\u00a0could treat people with sudden liver failure \u2014 by temporarily filtering their blood so their own organ can rest and maybe heal.<\/p>\n<p>The first-of-its-kind clinical trial has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pig-organ-transplant-kidney-xenotransplant-revivicor-egenesis-92c378d867f6e1ed8e1587c050daf0f8\">pig producer eGenesis<\/a>, which announced the step Tuesday with its partner OrganOx.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/15\/fda-clears-trial-pig-livers-dialysis-liver-failure\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Associated Press<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/15\/fda-clears-trial-pig-livers-dialysis-liver-failure\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FDA OKs trial of pig livers as dialysis-like treatment for liver failure WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. researchers will soon test whether\u00a0livers from a gene-edited pig\u00a0could treat people with sudden liver failure \u2014 by temporarily filtering their blood so their own organ can rest and maybe heal. The first-of-its-kind clinical trial has been cleared by the Food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2280,2146,1428,2361],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-trials","category-fda","category-health","category-surgery","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}