Xenotransplantation
Subject in Medicine
Xenotransplantation has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Moonshots with Peter Diamandis. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Martine RothblattEntrepreneur and futurist mentioned by an audience member
Rothblatt claims gene-edited xenotransplanted organs should survive indefinitely because the body treats them like related-donor grafts.
“Because we have now tolerized the organ with gene edits, made so many different types of gene edits”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Martine Rothblatt: Growing Unlimited Organs, AI Consciousness, & Digital Personhood by 2030 (Sep 15, 2026) · Listen from 25:16
Rothblatt reports that the FDA has approved United Therapeutics' thymokidney xenotransplant program, the only one in the clinic worldwide.
“the FDA has approved United Therapeutics to have the only thymic kidney transplant program in the clinic in the world”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Martine Rothblatt: Growing Unlimited Organs, AI Consciousness, & Digital Personhood by 2030 (Sep 15, 2026) · Listen from 19:55
Podcasts
- Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · 1 episode
Episodes
Martine Rothblatt: Growing Unlimited Organs, AI Consciousness, & Digital Personhood by 2030Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 15, 2026 · 50 min
Peter Diamandis talks with Martine Rothblatt about thymus regeneration, xenotransplanted organs, longevity escape velocity, AI consciousness, digital personhood, Gerard O'Neill and entrepreneurial advice.