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

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

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

And in that surgery, they put the pig kidney into ... a man named David Bennett became the first person to receive a pig heart transplant. NEERGAARD: And Dr. Bartley Griffith, who was the surgeon ...

returned home following her April 4 surgery at NYU Langone ... longer than anyone with a gene-edited pig organ. Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April.

Researchers in China have carried out the first transplant of a pig liver, genetically modified ... liver and reduce the risk of rejection. The surgery was carried out at Xijing Hospital in ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig while alive. She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant Institute, staying at an apartment near ...

Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living recipient in January 2025.