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Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in a woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with ...
BOSTON -- After living kidney donation, projection of renal function may vary by gender, a retrospective cohort study of 174,311 living kidney donors suggested.
In a landmark case for xenotransplantation, 53-year-old Towana Looney from Alabama had a genetically modified pig kidney ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the following to keep our kidneys healthy and help prevent chronic ...
When the UCLA team gave Cilengitide to mice with low type 5 collagen, it slowed down the scarring and kidney damage.
Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...
Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months ...
Pediatric patients with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection had a higher risk of adverse postacute kidney outcomes, such as new-onset ...
A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...
Researchers have identified type 5 collagen as a key factor in kidney fibrosis, revealing its potential as a biomarker to predict chronic kidney disease progression. A repurposed anti-cancer drug, ...
More than 16,000 people in Arizona are living with kidney failure, according to the American Kidney Fund. The fastest, and ...
Cysts, fibrosis, and tubular degeneration form the typical triad of pathologies leading to the gradual decline in kidney ...