In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...

A 69-year-old woman in China has become the third individual globally to receive a gene-edited pig kidney transplant, marking a significant advancement in the field of xenotransplantation. The ...

The 47-year-old Queens resident received a heart, kidney and liver at North Shore University Hospital on Feb. 8, during the first-ever triple transplant of those organs on Long Island ...

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 ...

(WXYZ) — March is National Kidney Month, a time to highlight kidney disease and the efforts to prevent and manage it. More than 35 million Americans suffer from ...

But two additional pig kidney recipients so far are thriving ... But Wang pointed to a potential next step in xenotransplantation — learning to transplant pig livers. His team reported ...

Table 2. The list of clinical xenotransplantation cases. As of February 2025, the U.S. FDA has approved two clinical trials for genetically engineered pig kidney transplantation into humans. The first ...

The group from China has conducted liver xenotransplantation research for more than a decade. In 2013, they successfully performed the first pig-to-monkey heterotopic auxiliary 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 media have reported she is a 69-year-old woman diagnosed with kidney failure eight years ago. But Wang pointed to a potential next step in xenotransplantation - learning to transplant pig ...

It was then that doctors told him that he needed a kidney transplant, “or else I would die,” he said. Medical records also show the acute illness that has drastically changed his life.