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

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TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...

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

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

The doctor told Flynn that one of her options was to see if she was a heart transplant candidate. Flynn said the other option, according to the doctor, would "let her last another three weeks." ...

Heart transplant patients who underwent a pioneering form of surgery have reunited with the medics who saved their lives to mark the 10th anniversary of the first operation of its kind. A group of 20 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...