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A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...
Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...
Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living ...
Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...
A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a ...
Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be ...
In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...
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 ...
Surgeons from Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into 66-year-old Tim Andrews on January 25. Massachusetts General Hospital ...