A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...

Pigs bred for animal-to-human organ transplant experiments are usually genetically modified to reduce the chance that the ...

FDA approves first human trial to transplant pig livers, offering hope for patients with severe liver failure.

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...

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 her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable ...