Pig kidney works in human body for 271 days
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"Pig kidney works in human body for 271 days" is generating significant coverage in the Health category, with 5 articles from 5 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include STAT, WIRED, The Guardian and The New York Times. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Coverage (10)
- Pig kidney kept a man off dialysis for nine months in world first New Scientist · 4h ago
- Patient Who Received Pig Kidney Becomes First To Progress to Human Kidney Transplant hms.harvard.edu · 4h ago
- Boston doctors report first pig-to-human transplant bridge WCVB · 4h ago
- Pig kidneys successfully transplanted into humans Financial Times · 4h ago
- Patient lived with world's first pig kidney transplant for nine months before getting human organ Sky News · 4h ago
- Recipients of gene-edited pig kidneys successfully receive human organs STAT · 4h ago
- A Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Still Working After a Record-Setting 9 Months in a Patient WIRED · 4h ago
- Genetically modified pig kidney keeps man alive for record nine months The Guardian · 4h ago
- In a First, a Pig Kidney Kept a Patient Alive Until He Got a Human One The New York Times · 4h ago
- Pig kidney works in human body for 271 days BBC · 4h ago
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