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

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

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

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it ...

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

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 ...

The liver of a pig with six genetic edits was transplanted into a brain-dead human whose basic bodily ... transplanted a gene-engineered pig kidney into a uremic patient. A medical team from ...

The woman, reportedly 69 years old, had kidney failure for eight years ... Wang said his team has also tried replacing a human liver completely with a pig liver in another brain-dead person ...

In 1996, one of the world’s top experts on kidney transplants predicted the first pig kidney would be transplanted into a human within seven years. It has been a lot longer than that, and we ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be ...

For instance, pig hearts, kidneys, and thymus glands have been transplanted into a limited number of human patients for short durations. But experts caution that it may take years before animal ...