In a landmark case for xenotransplantation, 53-year-old Towana Looney from Alabama had a genetically modified pig kidney ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but ...

Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the genetically modified ...

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

The puzzling case of Shedeur Sanders — and where the star Colorado quarterback and son of Deion Sanders could get selected in the 2025 NFL Draft — added another layer Wednesday, when an NFL ...

Nearly a year after performing the first transplant of a pig kidney into a living human recipient, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, reported that a second patient is doing well after ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks after surgery, doctors say she's doing well. The woman, reportedly 69 years old ...

Eleanor Rivera receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is affiliated with the National Kidney Foundation and the Department of Veterans Affairs. For a disease afflicting 35.5 ...

The procedure comes weeks after Chinese researchers successfully transplanted a gene-engineered pig kidney into a uremic patient. A medical team from Xijing Hospital of the Air Force Medical ...

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient ... xeno-liver with limited disruption to the anatomy of the existing liver ...

David Bennett Sr. was the first person to get a gene-edited pig heart, in 2022, and Richard Slayman was the first to get a kidney, in early 2024. Unfortunately, both men died around two months ...

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 ...