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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.
In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...
Researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by ...
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 modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...
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 ...