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Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...
A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...
Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...
U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...
Recipients of kidney transplants in high heat index settings show higher rates of adverse kidney outcomes than transplant ...
The incredibly rare type of surgery has been performed fewer than 80 times in the last two decades in the country. Cestoni ...
Omar needed a transfusion and immediately began dialysis, which filters the blood to do the job his kidneys could no longer ...
had been on dialysis for nine 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.
Utah GM Justin Zanik recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of his kidney transplant and is back with the Jazz ...
Kenya suspends kidney transplants at Mediheal Hospital after claims of global organ trafficking. A full audit and investigation are now underway.
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.