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The only person in the world with a functioning pig organ is thriving after a record 2 months
Read full article: The only person in the world with a functioning pig organ is thriving after a record 2 monthsAn Alabama woman is thriving a record 61 days and counting after receiving a pig kidney, a new milestone in the quest for animal-to-human transplants.
An Alabama woman is doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplant
Read full article: An Alabama woman is doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplantAn Alabama woman received a pig kidney transplant last month and is free from dialysis for the first time in eight years.
How a family's choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants
Read full article: How a family's choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplantsA sister’s choice to donate her brother’s body for research is helping doctors learn how to one day use pig organs to save human lives.
Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplants
Read full article: Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplantsNew York surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally.
Pig organ transplants inch closer with testing in the dead
Read full article: Pig organ transplants inch closer with testing in the deadResearchers at New York University transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs.
Jacksonville man’s death highlights need for more Black organ donors
Read full article: Jacksonville man’s death highlights need for more Black organ donorsFor six months Naishanda Larramore and husband Leonard Wayne Larramore searched for a donor but had no luck. In January 2017 the couple got married and four months later Leonard passed away.