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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is replacing animal testing with human-relevant methods, including artificial ...

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Asia's first gene-edited pig kidney transplant patient has maintained stable kidney function for more than 30 days after ...

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Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

If you prefer short history lessons, look no further than medicine. It was not long ago, in 1954, that the first human organ, ...

More than 2 decades have passed since I became the first full-time editor of Renal & Urology News. During that time, the ...

What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

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