Key Takeaways A pig kidney was removed from a woman after 130 days due to rejectionThis is the longest a genetically modified pig kidney has lasted in a humanThis is still progress in animal-to-human ...

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 ...

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body ...

Scientists have been genetically modifying pigs to make their organs more human-like, - and therefore more compatible for human transplants.

The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other ...

Pigs bred for animal-to-human organ transplant experiments are usually genetically modified to reduce the chance that the recipient’s immune system will attack the organ. Credit: Shelby Lum/AP via ...