The trial will initially enroll six patients with end-stage renal disease ... of a pig organ: Towana Looney, a 53-year-old from Alabama who received a United Therapeutics kidney on November ...

United Therapeutics Corp. said Tuesday that its trial will start with six patients with end-stage renal ... of a pig organ transplant. Towana Looney, 53, in November received a pig’s kidney ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure, marking a major step forward in cross-species ...

United Therapeutics will initially include six people with end-stage renal disease in the study ... transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney produced by eGenesis using Crispr gene-editing ...

In late November she became the first person in the world to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney. Now two months have passed. Four other patients previously received different kinds ...

The trial will initially enroll six patients with end-stage renal ... rates, kidney function, and the risk of zoonotic infections -- diseases that jump from animals to humans. Currently, there is only ...

In late November she became the first person in the world to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney. Now two months have passed. Four other patients previously received different ...

Cross-species transplantation will now be tested in human clinical trials in the US. (HealthDay News) — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever clinical trials ...