Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney, is headed back home to Alabama.
The US FDA has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure, marking a major step forward in cross-species transplantation.
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Patients in China and the US have received pig organ transplants, opening an ethical can of wormsThe second milestone transplant took place in the United States, where a pig's kidney was put into a patient with end-stage kidney failure. The procedure had previously been performed on ...
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Pig kidney transplant breakthrough offers hope for organ shortageDoctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease. The surgical team reported that the new kidney is functioning as expected.
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Boston Surgeons Successfully Transplant Pig Kidney in Fourth PatientSurgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States.
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