Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had to see if their method would work in a pig. By Gina Kolata On the ...

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Human organs have a short shelf life outside the body. Kidneys, if kept properly, can remain viable for up to 36 hours after removal and the donor can go on to live a normal life. Things become ...

The highly experimental procedure had fueled optimism that animal kidneys might prove a usable source amid a chronic shortage of available human kidneys. Her body's eventual rejection of 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 ...

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An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the ... a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal-to-human transplants. Towana Looney is recovering well from the ...

This decision recognizes that our fundamental human rights ... nearly 100% kidney failure and gets dialysis three times a week for four hours a day from 4 to 8 a.m. On March 3, ICE agents arrested ...

A Venezuelan man from Cicero will be temporarily released from ICE custody to donate a kidney to his ailing brother ... in Indiana since his arrest March 3. “This marks a victory for humanity ...