A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

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

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

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.

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

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, thus reducing the chances of rejection. One common edit, for instance, ...

Replacing a human organ with a pig’s is complicated, said Dr. Shimul Shah, an expert in xenotransplantation — the transplant of animal organs into humans — and division chief of abdominal ...

The surgery in medical history, conducted last year, is a breakthrough in research on xenotransplantation—the transplantation of organs from animals to humans. In the experiment, the pig liver ...

She is currently the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant. The patient, at day 84 post-transplant at press time, was “doing great,” Jeffrey M. Stern, MD, a member of the NYU ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

eGenesis, based in Cambridge, Mass., developed the pig kidneys used in recent transplants. Kidneys are the most in-demand organ for solid organ transplants in Canada. According to the Canadian ...