Towana Looney’s body eventually rejected the animal organ, but previous recipients of such transplants did not survive past ...

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

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

Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use of animal organs remains a distant goal, but doctors took some hope since the pig kidney did its blood-filtering work for ...

Asia's first gene-edited pig kidney transplant patient has maintained stable kidney function for more than 30 days after ...

A 69-year-old woman in China has become the third individual globally to receive a gene-edited pig kidney transplant, marking a significant advancement in the field of xenotransplantation. The ...

Transplantation of a gene-modified ... the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China, transplanted a liver from a Bama miniature pig in which six genes had been edited into a human ...

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 ...

including heart and kidney transplants. Dr. Wang and his team were the first in China to transplant a pig liver into a monkey, which survived for 14 days, in 2013. They have since also performed ...

Towana Looney, a 53-year-old patient, received a pig kidney transplant in late November 2024. Interestingly, in the liver case, the recipient’s liver was not removed throughout the procedure.

Multiple gene-edited pig heart and kidney transplants have been reported worldwide in recent years.

In 2013, they successfully performed the first pig-to-monkey heterotopic auxiliary liver transplantation in China. Both the recipient monkey and the transplanted liver survived for 14 days.