Towana Looney of Alabama is 'going strong and feeling great' after a pig kidney transplant. No one has lived longer with an ...

The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...

He underwent a kidney transplant six years prior due to chronic renal failure and has been on a regimen ... surrounding edema and a circular lesion in the right parietal lobe (Figure 6).

Conor van Baalen’s family is grateful to have found a possible kidney donor for the child – his mother. Nearly five years after his first kidney transplant, Conor is urgently in need of another kidney ...

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ transplant. By Roni Caryn Rabin The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ...

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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration approved clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure. United Therapeutics will initially ...

Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, thousands of these patients were moved up the list in ...

While the kidney is not typically performed in this type of transplant, if you are in end-stage kidney failure ... Your overall health will be thoroughly evaluated and this may include an evaluation ...

These patients comprised 62% of the waitlist vs. 38% before policy changes. Access to kidney transplants increased for undocumented immigrants in Illinois, Minnesota and Massachusetts following ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure, marking a major step forward in cross-species ...