A bill aimed at cracking down on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its practice of forced organ harvesting passed with overwhelming support on Wednesday […]
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Pig Kidney Removed From Alabama Woman After Organ Rejection
Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig’s kidney from an Alabama woman after she experienced acute organ rejection, NYU Langone Health officials said on Friday. Towana […]
Organ transplant recipient dies of rabies after surgery
A Michigan resident has died of rabies after receiving an organ transplant. The patient, who received the transplant at an Ohio hospital in December 2024, […]
Are Genetically Modified Pigs The Future of Organ Transplantation?
How have the first patients fared after receiving organ transplants from genetically modified pigs? Roni Caryn Rabin, a health reporter on the Science desk of […]
Young woman with liver disease needed organ donor, got much more after a NASCAR race
Nicole Munda, who was turning 29 in 2001, had never been to a NASCAR race at that point in time. Then a friend invited her […]
The Organ Transplant List Is Being Ignored
Organ transplant waiting lists are designed to fairly distribute organs to the sickest patients in order of priority. Or so we thought. A New York […]
FDA Approves Studies of Pig Organ Transplants for Kidney Patients
American regulators have given the green light to two biotechnology companies for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into people with […]
Alabama woman who is only person in the world with a functioning pig organ reaches record 2-month milestone
An Alabama woman who is the only living recipient of a pig organ transplant passed a major milestone on Saturday when she became the longest […]
Hams in the Belfry: How a Cash-Poor French Cathedral Fixed Its Organ
Struggling to raise funds for the restoration of his cathedral’s antique organ, a priest from St.-Flour, a small town in France’s heartland, came up with […]