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Cosmo, the Bernese Mountain Dog, was excited to play when he realized hot dogs were the prize!
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top health agency will undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the ...
A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...
Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development.
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.
Researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by ...
Pigs bred for animal-to-human organ transplant experiments are usually genetically modified to reduce the chance that the ...
An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...
A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig ...
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. She has returned to dialysis and awaits ...
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.