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

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

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

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

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.

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

Australian researchers are poised to become the first in the world to take pancreatic islet cells from genetically modified ...

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

What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

The first transplant of a pig's liver into a human recipient has been carried out by scientists in China, according to a new ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks after surgery, ...