Although the setup required to accomplish this feat is currently complicated, this finding could provide more understanding ...

For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement.

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

Researchers won’t transplant the pig liver but instead will attach it externally to study participants. The liver is the only ...

Since the procedure, she has called herself "superwoman" and has been able to live longer than anyone with a gene-edited pig organ. Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April.

World's first recipient of pig kidney died due to heart attack Rick Slayman was the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig. Rick died in 2024 due to an ...

Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use of animal organs remains a distant goal, but doctors took some hope since the pig kidney did its blood-filtering work ...

Before Looney’s transplant, only four other Americans had received genetically-altered pig organs. Two of them received hearts and the others received kidneys, but no transplant lasted longer ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant. She has returned to dialysis and awaits future transplant possibilities. Towana Looney lived for more than four months with ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a ...