A US woman who lived with a pig kidney for 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on ...

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

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 ...

Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xian, in northwestern China, used a liver taken ... In 2013, scientists performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies ...

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 ...

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.

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.