In a landmark case for xenotransplantation, 53-year-old Towana Looney from Alabama had a genetically modified pig kidney ...

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 April ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body ...

Asia's first gene-edited pig kidney transplant patient has maintained stable kidney function for more than 30 days after ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a pig kidney, and she's doing well after nearly three weeks post-surgery.

(HealthDay News) — A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly 3 weeks after surgery, doctors say she’s doing well.

including heart and kidney transplants. Dr. Wang and his team were the first in China to transplant a pig liver into a monkey, which survived for 14 days, in 2013. They have since also performed ...

Multiple gene-edited pig heart and kidney transplants have been reported worldwide in recent years.

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant ... that approach. In China, Wang's team didn't remove ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant ... University in Xi'an China Scientists are genetically ...

In 2013, Wang and his colleagues were the first in China to successfully transplant a pig liver into a monkey, which survived 14 days. The team said it has also done pig-to-monkey heart, kidney, ...