Like Looney, he was not as sick as some of the prior recipients when he was transplanted, and so far, so good. Chinese ...

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

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

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

Scientists have been genetically modifying pigs to make their organs more human-like, - and therefore more compatible for human transplants.

An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.

Asia's first gene-edited pig kidney transplant patient has maintained stable kidney function for more than 30 days after surgery and has met the criteria for discharge, marking a milestone in ...

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting. “I’m ...

Nearly a year after performing the first transplant of a pig kidney into a living human recipient, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, reported that a second patient is doing well after ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney ... Lin Wang, part of the transplant team, said the kidney is working well and the patient is still being ...

Chinese doctors have made a historic breakthrough by successfully transplanting a genetically engineered pig liver into a human. The organ functioned normally for 10 days without immune rejection ...

But Towana Looney, the third living person to receive a gene-edited pig kidney, has been doing well. She had her transplant surgery in late November of last year. “I am full of energy.