Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

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

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...

This preserves future possibilities for transplantation for her as ... it was cleared by the FDA to use this type of pig kidney in the first human clinical trials to study xenotransplantation.

But in early April, her body ‒ which had tolerated the kidney longer than any ... her to develop antibodies to many human organs. The pigs available for transplant are gene-edited to make ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...