Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover ...

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it ...

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

Chinese Woman Is Third Person to Get a Gene-Edited Pig Kidney THURSDAY, March 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from pigs into monkeys, including a pig heart, kidney, cornea, and bone. The ...

New Trial Will Test Gene-Edited Pig Liver for Sudden Liver Failure Patients WEDNESDAY, April 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A ...

Researchers have had some successes transplanting gene-edited pig kidneys and hearts ... The team said it has also done pig-to-monkey heart, kidney, cornea, skin and bone transplants.

When she heard about the option to try a pig kidney transplantation, she jumped at the chance to try it. “Without a pathway to receiving a human kidney, she decided a gene-edited pig kidney was ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks after surgery, doctors say she's doing well. The woman, reportedly 69 years old ...

More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list, most who need a kidney, and thousands die waiting. Before Looney’s ...