Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...
FDA approves pig organ transplant trials for patients with kidney failure
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
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She's a medical miracle. Could her animal transplant success be just the beginning?
Looney said she also understands why the two kidney patients and especially the two heart transplant patients who went before her did not survive. The pig organ is so healthy, she said ...
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Longest Pig Organ Transplant Survivor Passes 60 Days With New Kidney
An Alabama woman has become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, passing 60 days with a gene-edited kidney and showing no signs of slowing down.
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Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone
An Alabama grandmother who was the first patient to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney more than two ...
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Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
Locke has been involved in the transplant and care of 53-year-old Towana Looney, who received a pig kidney from United Therapeutics in November at NYU Langone’s Transplant Institute. Looney ...
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FDA approves pig organ transplant trials for patients with kidney failure
The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure, an ...
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Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone
Montgomery, who himself received a human heart transplant in 2018 ... But Montgomery stresses that no one knows how long Looney's pig kidney will last. "I hope that it lasts a good long time ...