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Karlovy Vary Screens Bold Feature Debut ‘Our Lovely Pig Slaughter’

Czech writer-director Adam Martinec has taken on a near-sacred Bohemian ritual in his Karlovy Vary Film Festival Official Competition world…

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Surgeons remove pig kidney transplant from woman

Courtesy of NYU Langone Surgeons in New York have removed a pig kidney less than two months after transplanting it…

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Tech

Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed

Surgeons in New York have removed a pig kidney less than two months after transplanting it into Lisa Pisano, a…

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Health

Studies reveal cell-by-cell changes caused when pig hearts and kidneys are transplanted into humans

Surgical teams at NYU Langone Health performed the world’s first genetically modified pig kidney transplants into a human body in…

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World

The First Person to Receive a Pig Kidney Transplant Has Died

Richard “Rick” Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has died almost two months…

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Health

First person to receive genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies : NPR

Rick Slayman is pictured at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he became the first person to have a genetically…

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Tech

Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery

A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney. The surgery,…

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World

He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working

Other than rejection of the organ, one of the most common transplant complications is infection. Doctors have to strike a…

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Tech

A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First Time

Slayman received his first kidney transplant in 2018 from a human donor. The donor kidney initially functioned well, but Slayman…

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Health

First transplant of gene-edited pig kidney into a living human : Shots

Surgeons perform the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a living human at Massachusetts General Hospital in…

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