Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis ...

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

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.

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 ...

The dialysis treatment also contributed to a heart attack that Andrews suffered in July 2023 while awaiting an eventual transplant procedure. Patients needing kidney ... I woke up after the ...

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

When she heard about the option to try a pig kidney transplantation ... have a 50% chance of dying in the five years after they start the treatment, studies show. The US Food and Drug ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable ...

Doctors say they’ve removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman after she lived with the organ for a record 130 days. Towana Looney has returned home to Gadsden after undergoing surgery a week ago. She ...