Doctors perform 1st gene-edited pig kidney transplant into human body

ABC News' Alex Presha speaks with the lead transplant surgeon from the University of Alabama at Birmingham about the groundbreaking transplant.

[@renatobertuola7802]

I am Brazilian, I have hemodialysis for 2 years. Thank you to the University of Alabama Science and to this wonderful family. I hope that soon this transplant will be something common. Thank you very much, United States of America!

[@2listening1]

God bless you, Renato. I tried to be a living kidney donor to someone I know but my kidney function isn’t high enough for the doctors to allow me to. I will always pray for you. 💛🕯

[@NHLblkgurl]

I saw “that’s some human” written in a spider web in the hospital’s garden.

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

💖 I love that story...what a book that is !

[@marianoarroyo9717]

Thank you sir for opening the door. I hope we can move forward and get more funding for studies like this.

[@gurusupreme8373]

After he wakes up from the transplant . First thing he said oink oink !!!!!

[@alfredosmith213]

We are now in July and the that news article article is dated January. How more ahead is the pig to human kidney transplant research going since then ? Gene editing(crispr and mrna) came a long way in six months ? Any trials that past the 77 hours? If this is dead(pun intented), wouldn't it be nice as to know why?

[@srinivasinti1330]

Your number send me

[@2listening1]

1:37 Oh, my heart 💛💛😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 Love to David, his Dad, and the whole family, and Jim’s native kidney recipients. 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

[@violetblue4317]

God Bless Jim Parsons and His Wonderful Family ♥️

[@sf49erswarriorsgiantsgumba99]

Been a dialysis patient for six years now. Hopefully before my body starts shutting down, I can get a kidney either from a pig or from a life giving donor. God bless us all..🙏🙏

[@abundela76]

And what about the piglets of the Donar? Did the recipient ate up the rest of the donar?

[@Technical.Engineercivil]

I want to get admission in medical program

[@101theobserver]

Why they ended the study 72 hours after did it reject .

[@Miapetdragon69]

Here's the thing some of us are old enough to remember baby m the baby that was transplanted with a baboon heart I remember it and I'm thankful for a lot of the things that they're able to do because I hope someday maybe before I pass away they can find a cure for me I have a MS

[@heatherloesch1343]

Feel the same way. I'm a carrier this far. Also am carrier of Alzheimer's. My Mother passed at 61 after inserting 10 years with Alz. There are some miraculous things happening every few years.

[@bennyskim]

First with a pig heart, now kidneys. They're like "wait we can just use all pig stuff moving forward"

[@courtoisclarens9068]

Lol

[@chaoyoong9987]

finally the pig will be contributing to extending lives. The heart and kidney transplant teams should get a Nobel prize for medicine because many many lives will be extended with these breakthroughs. Instead of bacon on breakfast table, pigs now give life...wonderful research

[@holdDeez1993]

@@chaoyoong9987 so take a life for another life but guess the pig can't pay anybody so off with their heads keep the human alive he'll be paying for the rest of his life

[@aw1078]

Nice…now I can keep drinking, smoking, & eating badly.

[@makwie2789]

I have hemodialysis for 12 years

[@EarlKuOnly]

now we all know who jim parsons is ... thank you Jim

[@siharpanuturlumbantobing175]

This Is Very Amazing Progress, Founding On Medical Sciencetist As Pig Kidney Organs Can Transplantation To Human Body , This Is Amazing Sir, God Bless Sir, .... Thanks All, ...... Cheerio.*****.

[@dsmethurst41]

God dose not bless chimeras if anything that's like one of the worst thing you could do. Basically just corrupted your flesh...... Cheerio

[@Buttersausage]

God bless American ingenuity

[@courtoisclarens9068]

Thank you #JimParson 😣😭

[@lurkingarachnid7475]

so can I have the heart of a bull? 🤔

[@martinenriquez3508]

Poor pigs.

[@mikebryant8507]

Circle of life

[@garyevergreen5035]

Is the patient still alive?

[@IrvinCE]

No

[@lurkingarachnid7475]

In other news, the price of pork just gone up

[@justinreyes4399]

3 words....Man, Bear, Pig.....all we need now is crab people. They look like crabs and talk like people.

[@LuciFeric137]

What could go wrong? We trust the scientists/s.

[@mikebryant8507]

Says the random guy

[@HonorViego]

Better than trying nothing at all

[@arborstone6546]

Your sending messages and and watching porn with science. You brush your teeth with science. Hell you eat sleep and work all thanks to science.

[@arandomguy46]

@Sky Mile still working

[@peterolbrisch8970]

That sure was nice of Rosie O'Donnell.

[@Mikeyeyey]

Or you could just eat healthily. WFPB

[@UuU1001.]

Bazinga!

[@ferniegutierrez5605]

Am I the only one who heard it was a pig’s heart transplant???

[@matthewcurry3565]

Full pig people on the way!

[@losamarillos88]

They did that as well.

[@eldy938]

Well I have good friend who is on a waiting list, she 60+ so reality check . If this proven to work and people regain quality of life to almost prior, well then the institutions, people involves will have the world as benefactors. Good luck and best wishes from Canada.

[@thele99]

This is awesome. Just awesome. A total game changer.

[@majorseventh2699]

Hopes its a great success!! and I was thinking would they mind transplantin me a genetically altered pig brain some day? pig headed anyway, thats what my wife says.

[@morgandawn6413]

Why do this when you can just 3D print the organs?

[@matthewcurry3565]

Because they'll fail sooner meaning big CASSHHHHHH G

[@courtoisclarens9068]

ALLELUIA!

[@monnikhan1000]

Wtf

[@kimthuan3350]

Wow

[@nanasnickers6874]

Isn’t this a week old news?

[@mikebryant8507]

No

[@tvaddict135]

@Nana Snickers. A week ago news was a successful gene edited pig heart transplant to human: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqfWdaJ5rq14b8k

[@hindustani6809]

Respect for 🐖🐷.....

[@lurkingarachnid7475]

so you're now part bacon 🤔

[@thejah-rican-queen946]

Wtf 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

[@hindustani6809]

🐷🐖 is a God massenger

[@rgaleny]

READ ROBERT PIRSIG'S - LILA - FOR MORAL VALIDATION

[@birabarapradhan9631]

Oi

[@joshuahaldeman1072]

We all are doomed

[@mikebryant8507]

Speak for yourself

[@fearandloathingmedia2051]

Keep thumpin that bible Billy

[@Unknown0human]

This is creepy 😥

[@tvaddict135]

@i don’t want to be a human. To me, it is very good news. A lots of people die due to kidney failure and not enough kidney donation. They successfully performed a gene edited heart transplant to human: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqfWdaJ5rq14b8k

[@Unknown0human]

@@tvaddict135 we can't keep people in earth man.

[@jameselliott9055]

Bruh, we are simply bio machines whose conscience has been installed into a quantum computer inside our skulls. . . some people's computers are actually just Atari game systems from the 1980's, though.😔

[@dilipkumarsharma385]

God bless American ingenuity, This Is Very Amazing Progress, Founding On Medical Sciencetist as Pig Kidney Organs Can Transplantation To Human Body , This Is Amazing Sir, God Bless Sir, .... Thanks All,Dilip Sharma,NEPAL. WE HOPE IN THE FUTURE ALL THE PATIENTS WILL GET BENIFIT. THAKS DOCTOR AND TEAM.

[@dsmethurst41]

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

[@MoeyViews]

Cops be perfect candidate

[@aromirsauro9092]

@moe --- blm rioters too ;)

[@barbarafogle3541]

So you raise the pig to kill it. Sounds normal. How long before they revise the Russian studies of swapping heads of animals. It looks like we are getting close to making the Egyptian characters. Maybe we can grow whole human bodies soon. Those frozen people might have been right for having been frozen.

[@Spsuperstar]

Disgusting. 🤢🤮

[@mgbar1293]

Can we STOP using animals for human benefits?!? Like for gods sake instead of moving forward and moving towards eliminating animal testing, animal cruelty, etc. humans decide to regress even more. Not okay!

[@HonorViego]

If almost all of us eat meat everyday we have millions of extra pig organs just being thrown away why would this not be something we’d look into?

[@DonkeyLipsDA3rd]

Nah girl f those pigs. We need to start pumping out more kidneys..

[@montreauxs]

Says the dumbass who has bacon with her pancakes.

[@alo1417]

I mean, it’s not like we’re killing them to eat them in this case. We’re killing them because we can save lives. I don’t see a problem with that

[@josiecamilo7098]

Exactly 💯 I see this as going backwards not forward. Even though animals are killed for food we should have a respect for all life. If we have all this technology now we shouldn't need to do this. It's also blasphemy against God I feel even if others see this as perfectly fine. Anyone who has a pet would also feel some way about this. They are pure like children and give unselfish love. So sad because that animal isn't going to be eaten it's going to be kept alive pumped with medicine so it can have it's organs harvested for another animal that could get an organ from its own kind.

[@catherineg.4720]

Definitely the end of the world 😇🙏

[@mikebryant8507]

Science *

[@gemthetics8084]

"Call on the Lord in the day of trouble, and he will deliver you." Psalm 50 :15

[@josiecamilo7098]

@Yes that's because people create the problems.

[@user-xg4yq6ug8x]

To the ones who don’t believe Psalm 14 King James Version 14 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

[@namenotavailable9989]

@@josiecamilo7098 Then why are you saying he will solve anything. You can't have it both ways. If every problem is because of humans and therefore he won't solve any problem that implies he won't solve any problems. So stop saying he will make all your problems go away.

[@arandomguy46]

@@user-xg4yq6ug8x i must be the fool then