STAT+: Recipients of gene-edited pig kidneys successfully receive human organs

When doctors think about sticking an organ from another animal into a person, one of their many questions is about what might happen after they take that organ out. Would the patient produce antibodies that would complicate a human-to-human transplant later on? The scientists at eGenesis didn’t think so, based on what they saw in primate studies. But now they have confirmation. On Thursday evening, the biotech company — one of a handful racing to develop xenografts, as these interspecies transpl...