Pig Kidney Removed From Alabama Woman After Organ Rejection

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal.

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Drugs Have Uses We Can’t Imagine. He’s Using A.I. to Find Them.

Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.

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His Death Was Interrupted, Just as He Had Planned

Brendan Costello’s family was bracing for goodbyes. But he had one last wish.

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For Patients Needing Transplants, Hope Arrives on Tiny Hooves

Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans. But substantial ethical questions remain.

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Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney.

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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.

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Alabama Woman Receives Nation’s Third Pig Kidney Transplant

The patient, Towana Looney, was in better health than previous recipients, and her case could signal progress toward solving the organ-supply shortage.

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