MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth ...

David-Alexandre C. Gros, MD, CEO at Eledon, discusses the milestone and the role of immunosuppression regimens for durable ...

An Alabama woman who is the only living recipient of a pig organ transplant became the longest living person with a functioning pig organ on Saturday.

Pigs have emerged as ideal donors: they grow quickly, produce large litters, and are already part of the human food supply.

Towana Looney has now lived longer than any person with a kidney from a pig. Looney's body produces ... says she didn't have much of a choice. Inside Edition's Steven Fabian has more.

When Timothy Andrews learned he was a candidate for tan experimental pig kidney implant, he wanted to help pave the way.

Looney’s vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality. Only four other Americans have received hugely experimental transplants of gene-edited pig ...

During a two-and-a-half-hour procedure, doctors at Mass General transplanted a kidney ... pig viruses. Dr. Leo Riella of Mass General Hospital explained, "So viruses that are inside the DNA ...

Tuesday marked her astonishing 61 days of living with the genetically modified pig kidney inside her. For more than two decades, Towana Looney has been on dialysis. Her unexpected turn came to ...

Towana Looney, a 53-year-old woman from Alabama, USA, has become the longest-living transplant recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney.