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A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...
In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...
A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.
A genetically engineered ... years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig while alive.
Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig ... World's first recipient of pig kidney died due to heart attack Rick Slayman was the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically ...
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified ... some successes transplanting gene-edited pig kidneys and hearts into people, but liver ...
had her pig kidney ... the genetically modified organ, according to NYU Langone Health in New York. The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop alternatives to scarce human ...