A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of researchers from NYU Langone Health reports that Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman from New Jersey, has become the second. Her new kidney has just a single genetic modification—an approach that researchers hope…
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health renowned academic medical center lin New York, have performed the world's first combined heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant on a woman with end-stage kidney disease.
A New Jersey woman who was near death has received a transplanted pig kidney, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Doctors at NYU Langone Health say 54-year-old Lisa Pisano is recovering well. She is only the second patient ever to receive a pig kidney. The first, a man transplanted last month in Boston, also is faring well. Pisano was far sicker, suffering a combination of heart and kidney failure. It's the latest in a string of attempts to make...
Valve has launched a new sale on Steam, a week-long FPS Fest, with big discounts and demos for all sorts of different first-person shooters and other games. The sales event runs through April 22.
Kellie Pickler has performed live for the first time since the death of her
By the time Breanna Van Watteghem turned five years old, her kidneys had already started to fail. It began with the cloudy urine her parents would find in the toilet whenever she forgot to flush. That was followed later by recurring urinary tract infections, then persistent lower back pain beginning at the age of 11. […]
900 primary schools and up to 150,000 pupils will benefit from the extended School Meals Programme, starting today
In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill New Jersey woman received a pig kidney transplant and a surgically implanted mechanical heart pump.
Fourteen months after her husband Kyle Jacobs committed suicide in February 2023, Kellie Pickler returned to the stage to perform for the first time since his death on Monday night at Nashville's famed Ryman Auditorium.
Manning Stainton have listed this stylish two-bedroom semi-detached home on Barras Garth Road in Wortley, Leeds for £199,950. The property features a generous living room with glass sliding door onto the rear garden and a separate kitchen and dining room as well as a guest WC on the ground floor. Sign up today and get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox, with the YEP’s free newsletter On the first floor are two good-size double bedrooms and a contemporary family bathroom with...
We're officially one day away from the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft.
We're officially counting down the final days until the 2024 NFL Draft