From pig kidney transplants to the development of a new schizophrenia drug, here are five of the biggest medical ...
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An Alabama Woman Got a Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant. Three Weeks Later, She Has ‘Never Felt Better’On November 25, 53-year-old Towana Looney became just the third living person to receive a pig kidney in an experimental ...
Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than ...
Thousands of people in the U.S. are waiting for organ transplants but there are not enough donors. One solution to the ...
A woman in the United States has received a one-of-a-kind gene-edited pig kidney transplant, she is the only person living ...
She volunteered to become the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically modified pig. Scientists hope this kind of pig will someday provide an unlimited ...
"Xenotransplantation is about eliminating that gamble." The other four patients who received pig organs ‒ two hearts and two kidneys ‒ had a "honeymoon" period right after their transplants ...
People worried they’ll never get a scarce human transplant asked: When could we get a pig kidney? Alex Berrios of Louisville, Kentucky, needs a second transplant but finding another human match ...
Twenty-five years after donating a kidney to her mother, an Alabama woman became the third human to receive a genetically engineered pig’s kidney, raising hopes for thousands of Americans on the ...
An Alabama woman received a pig kidney transplant last month and is free from dialysis for the first time in eight years ...
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