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

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 ...

Some examples of animal tissue that is used in the humans include heart valves that are derived from pigs. Ganesha has an elephant’s head on the human body. The transplant is believed to have ...

There are many S-Class stories from history—the infamous Red Pig taking second at Spa-Francorchamps ... Erich Waxenberger came up with a plan to transplant said M100 V-8 into the much lighter ...

There are many S-Class stories from history—the infamous Red Pig taking second at Spa-Francorchamps in 1971 ... In 1966, company engineer Erich Waxenberger came up with a plan to transplant said M100 ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However, her immune system rejected the organ. Doctors removed the kidney on ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement.

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 ...

The kidney was removed Friday, The Times said. United Therapeutics Corporation, the biotech company that created the pig used in the transplant, said the organ had functioned well until the ...

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