For decades, scientists and surgeons around the world have been trying to solve the organ donor crisis. The answer could be ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant. She has returned to dialysis and awaits future transplant possibilities. Towana Looney lived for more than four months with ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment in the ...

The death of a Weymouth man two months after undergoing what his doctors at Mass General Hospital described as the first successful pig-to-human ... the hospital's head of transplant surgery ...

The local biotech whose technology has already been used for pig-to-human organ transplants is now bringing its first program into the clinic. Cambridge biotech behind pig organ transplants to ...

Other transplant surgeons at Dr. Uygun’s hospital are starting to experiment with genetically modified pig kidneys. They have transplanted them into several human patients, with mixed outcomes.

Although the setup required to accomplish this feat is currently complicated, this finding could provide more understanding ...

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... The world's longest-lasting pig organ ...