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

Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...

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.

A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...

Thousands of patients on the list die each year, and thousands more come off the list because their health has worsened to ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover ...

Pig organs offer a potential solution to the human organ shortage ... due to heart attack Rick Slayman was the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig.

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

But in early April, her body ‒ which had tolerated the kidney longer than any ... her to develop antibodies to many human organs. The pigs available for transplant are gene-edited to make ...