FDA approves first human trial to transplant pig livers, offering hope for patients with severe liver failure.

Key Takeaways A pig kidney was removed from a woman after 130 days due to rejectionThis is the longest a genetically modified pig kidney has lasted in a humanThis is still progress in animal-to-human ...

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

In a landmark case for xenotransplantation, 53-year-old Towana Looney from Alabama had a genetically modified pig kidney ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

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

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney ... to use genetically altered pig organs to help deal with a shortage of human organs for transplant.

In contrast to the kidney or the heart ... the realization of xenotransplantation potential, like genetically modified pig liver transplantation, there is hope that this will ultimately alleviate ...

the donor liver came from a pig that had been genetically modified to inactivate genes that mediate rejection and to include human transgenes to facilitate compatibility. Before transplant ...