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By law, so far, it’s a family thing,” said Dr Ben Lomatayo, Consultant Nephrologist at Aga Khan Hospital, in an interview ...
Nada Al Ammari received the gift of life in the form of a pancreas and kidney transplant, which came under the UAE’s Hayat programme — and it has been nothing short of transformative. Speaking from ...
U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...
Pigs bred for animal-to-human organ transplant experiments are usually genetically modified to reduce the chance that the ...
One of every three donated kidneys never gets transplanted. CBS News explores why a growing number are being discarded.
Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living ...
Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...
An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.
An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...
During National Donate Life Month, let’s honor the courage of donors and their families, celebrate the resilience of ...
Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...
The modern explosion in medical memoirs is often attributed to Henry Marsh, the neurosurgeon whose instant classic, Do No Harm, was published in 2014. Yet 5 years earlier, another British surgeon, ...