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At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of ...
Keith Baldinger donated a kidney in December; just weeks later, his wife received the lifesaving donation she needed.
Dr. Seung Duk Lee, interim surgical director of liver transplant, performed the nation’s first fully robotic living donor liver transplant.
A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...
The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...
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 had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...
Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months ...
A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...
More than 16,000 people in Arizona are living with kidney failure, according to the American Kidney Fund. The fastest, and ...
In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...
The transplant surgery took place in 2022 ... but it didn’t matter because I was there — I was alive and the kidney was ...