A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig organ, ...

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

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be ...

The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop alternatives to scarce human organs for transplantation, took place Nov. 25, 2024. The kidney was still working well, but appeared to ...

After 4 months, the world's longest pig kidney transplant has failed ... "The 4 months and 9 days Looney spent with the kidney set a new record for a pig organ in a human, but it is yet another ...

A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman ... prove a usable source amid a chronic shortage of available human kidneys. Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant ...

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

had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the genetically modified organ, according to NYU Langone Health in New York. The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop ...