And it could not be better timed—the first US-based clinical trials of pig kidney transplantation into living humans begin ...

Pig kidney functions inside donated body for record 2 months The experiment in NY have raised hopes that pigs could be used for organ transplants in living patients. Associated Press.

Scientists have grown kidneys containing mostly human cells inside pig embryos, an important step toward growing kidneys and potentially other human organs that could be used for transplants in ...

A Pig Kidney Has Now Survived Inside a Human Body for Six Weeks and Counting Surgeons at New York University have reached another milestone in making pig-to-human organ transplants a reality.

Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past ...

NYU will further study the explanted kidney for further insight on how it reacted inside a living person. A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis just 47 days later after ...

Towana Looney became the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically modified pig last month. Looney is a 53-year-old grandmother from Gadsden, Ala.

Keeping a pig kidney in a brain-dead person for such a long-time, Montgomery said, will help address questions raised by similar experiments in nonhuman primates.

Scientists tracked how human immune cells attack pig kidneys after transplant—and found a way to fight back using precision ...

ABC News' Morgan Norwood visits a farm and the scientists raising pigs with genetically-modified organs to transplant them into humans for a second chance at life -- all with the FDA's permission.

Towana Looney, who received a pig kidney transplant in November 2024, goes over notes about her recovery with Dr. Jeffrey Stern at NYU Langone Health in New York, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.

Towana Looney became the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically modified pig last month. Health correspondent Rob Stein got exclusive access to be in the ...