Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have successfully grown ‘mini kidneys’ in the lab and grafted them into…
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Read More »The new era of animal-to-human kidney transplantation is off to a good start. On Wednesday, 62-year-old Richard Slayman, the world’s…
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Read More »A woman developed kidney damage on three separate occasions after receiving hair-straightening treatments at a salon. Her doctors say one…
Read More »Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig into a man suffering from end-stage…
Read More »Pig Kidney Transplanted into Living Human for First Time Doctors have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living…
Read More »A man in Massachusetts just became the first person to receive a pig kidney transplant. Scientists have been developing genetically…
Read More »Slayman received his first kidney transplant in 2018 from a human donor. The donor kidney initially functioned well, but Slayman…
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