She's a medical miracle. Could her animal transplant success be just the beginning?
Towana Looney of Alabama is 'going strong and feeling great' after a pig kidney transplant. No one has lived longer with an ...
The Associated Press on MSN13d
Alabama Woman Is Longest Living Recipient Of Pig Organ Transplant
An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
FDA Approves Transplant Trials for Gene-Edited Pig Kidneys
The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...
Boston Surgeons Successfully Transplant Pig Kidney in Fourth Patient
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the US. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
MGH performs its second, world’s fourth genetically altered pig kidney transplant
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after MGH transplant
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
F.D.A. Approves Studies of Pig Organ Transplants for Kidney Patients
The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ ...
New Hampshire man is 2nd recipient of a pig kidney from Massachusetts General Hospital
For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.
Becker's Hospital Review5d
More systems test pig kidney transplants
Discover the latest breakthrough in organ transplantation as a 66-year-old man becomes the fourth person in the U.S. to receive a pig kidney transplant at Mass ...