Massachusetts-based researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure by temporarily filtering their blood so their own organ can rest and ...

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after her body rejected the organ, NYU Langone Health reported.

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

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

Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

Cohen Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) performed its first pediatric heart transplant on March 28, just weeks after receiving approval from the state. The procedure was the first of its kind performed ...

The 47-year-old Queens resident received a heart, kidney and liver at North Shore University Hospital on Feb. 8, during the first-ever triple transplant of those organs on Long Island ...

“However, this unique pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation can still provide critical information that cannot be provided by animal experiments alone.” Liver transplantation is the most ...

Chinese doctors have made a historic breakthrough by successfully transplanting a genetically engineered pig liver into a human. The organ functioned normally for 10 days without immune rejection ...

An investigation confirmed the patient contracted rabies through the organ. A Michigan resident has died of rabies after apparently undergoing an organ transplant, health officials said.

The liver of a pig with six genetic edits was transplanted into a brain-dead human whose basic bodily ... Multiple gene-edited pig heart and kidney transplants have been reported worldwide in ...