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A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

The commonly used Cockcroft-Gault method may result in excessive chemotherapy dosing — with potentially dire implications.

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in a woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with ...

Understanding and categorizing the various types of tubulointerstitial responses in acute kidney injury (AKI) may lead to the ...

Looney had been on dialysis since 2016 and didn’t qualify for a regular transplant – her body was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney. So she sought out a pig kidney and it functioned ...

Cysts, fibrosis, and tubular degeneration form the typical triad of pathologies leading to the gradual decline in kidney ...

Researchers have identified type 5 collagen as a key factor in kidney fibrosis, revealing its potential as a biomarker to predict chronic kidney disease progression. A repurposed anti-cancer drug, ...

“In early April, she had a reduction in renal function due to acute rejection ... “Without a pathway to receiving a human kidney, she decided a gene-edited pig kidney was worth a try, and ...