Pig Who Donated Kidney

66-year-old man receives pig kidney transplant

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 long wait for human organ transplants.

The New York Times · 8d

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 transplant.

Euro Weekly News · 12d

World’s first pig kidney transplant recipient reaches milestone

Towana Looney, a 53-year-old woman from Alabama, USA, has become the longest-living transplant recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney.

CNN on MSN · 4d

Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received a pig kidney transplant.

essanews.com on MSN · 3d

Pig kidney transplant breakthrough offers hope for organ shortage

Doctors 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.

3don MSN

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 ...

Newsday5d

New Hampshire man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant ... to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of donated human organs. The first four pig organ transplants ...

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

She spent eight years on dialysis before doctors concluded she’d likely never get a donated organ – she’d developed ...

New York Post4d

New Hampshire man who ‘was ready to fight’ becomes second known person living with pig kidney

NBC 10 Philadelphia4d

NH man becomes 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney

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