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Behind the story of the decades-long journey of xenotransplantation
In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...
Scientists will test modified pig livers as dialysis-like treatment for patients with organ failure
Scientists will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure – by temporarily ...
The Root5d
Sad News For Ala. Black Woman Who Received Historic, Successful Pig Kidney Transplant
Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...
The Purdue Exponent5d
Pig Kidney Removed After Historic Transplant in Alabama Woman
TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...
FDA OKs trial of pig livers as dialysis-like treatment for liver failure
U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...
Tribune Chronicle6d
Pig kidney sets 130-day record
WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting ...
American Hospital Association6d
Mass General team performs second xenotransplant of genetically edited pig kidney
Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living ...
Becker's Hospital Review6d
Longest living pig kidney transplant recipient has organ removed
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 ...