In May of last year, Lisa Pisano, the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig, also had to have her kidney removed to resume dialysis. More than 100,000 people are on the U.S ...

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.

Towana Looney, a woman from Alabama, had lived with the gene-edited pig kidney for 130 days. She lived with the organ longer than any other transplant patient has tolerated a gene-edited animal organ.

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

“For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement. HealthDay News — Doctors have removed a ...

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

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after ...