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A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...
Dr. Seung Duk Lee, interim surgical director of liver transplant, performed the nation’s first fully robotic living donor ...
They decided to work with recently removed but still live ... transplant surgeons at Mass General, opened the pig’s abdomen and prepared the animal for the surgery. At 10:30, they sewed the ...
A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...
Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover ...
In a historic medical milestone, a Long Island hospital successfully completed its first heart, liver, and kidney transplant ...
The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...
Towana Looney's transplanted pig kidney was removed after 130 days due to rejection. This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant ... months after surgery," the company ...
"It's like a second opportunity at life, to do things better than before," transplant recipient Sergio Arias Cestoni told Newsday.
Fortis Hospital announced it has treated two urological cancer cases using robotic surgery, including the removal of a cancerous tumour from a transplanted kidney. Dr Dharmender Aggarwal ...
Washington (AFP) – Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman ... acute rejection," said Robert ...
becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig while alive. She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant Institute, staying at an apartment near ...