A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living recipient in January 2025.

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

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it. Towana Looney from Gadsden, Ala., returned home following her April 4 surgery at ...

New York, New York - Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with the animal's organ set a record, the hospital ...

WASHINGTON – Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with the animal’s organ set a record, the hospital ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However, her immune system rejected the organ. Doctors removed the kidney on ...