People worried they’ll never get a scarce human transplant ... he's interested in a pig kidney. FDA rules require that pig organs be extensively tested in monkeys or baboons before humans.

Other transplant surgeons at Dr. Uygun’s hospital are starting to experiment with genetically modified pig kidneys. They have transplanted them into several human patients, with mixed outcomes.

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after her body rejected the organ, NYU Langone Health reported.

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 ...

Looney had been on dialysis since 2016 and didn't qualify for a regular transplant - her body was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney. So she sought out a pig kidney and it functioned well ...

Why is pig’s kidney used for transplantation? Pigs are often used for xenotransplantation because their organs are similar in size and function to human organs. Xenotransplantation is the ...

Looney had been on dialysis since 2016 and didn’t qualify for a regular transplant – her body was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney. So she sought out a pig kidney and it functioned ...

WASHINGTON – Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted ... a chronic shortage of available human kidneys. Her body’s eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable ...

When the human kidney failed he had no treatment options remaining so surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston got permission to try the animal transplant under "compassionate use".

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an ... amid a chronic shortage of available human kidneys. Her body’s eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an ... amid a chronic shortage of available human kidneys. Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use ...