U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

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 ...

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after ...

In 2016, Looney was added to the kidney transplant ... a pig’s kidney would be surgically implanted inside the 53-year-old. The procedure of transferring organs from an animal to a human is ...

Dr Robert Montgomery, who performed the transplant, said removal of the kidney, also called an “explant”, is not a step backward in the field of xenotransplantation (the use of animal organs ...

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 that performed ...

Pigs bred for animal-to-human organ transplant experiments are usually genetically modified to reduce the chance that the ...

WASHINGTON — On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal ... receive a pig heart transplant.