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Megan Bosack needed her kidney removed. Evelyn Bautista needed a new one. Their needs made for a perfect match. Bosack, 21, ...
More than 100,000 people nationwide, including 5,000 in the Philadelphia area, are waiting for organ donations, a reality ...
A physical therapist was shocked to learn that for her, some of her crucial organs had an expiration date. With proactive ...
The transplant lasted a record 4 months and ... Looney was one of the two recipients of kidneys from pigs after the only kidney she had failed; she had donated her another kidney to her mother.
After 4 months, the world's longest pig kidney transplant has failed. 53 year old Towana Looney received a kidney from a gene-edited pig on 25 November 2024, had it removed after the organ suddenly ...
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...
Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...
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... The world's longest-lasting pig organ ...
A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it ...
The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...