The transplant, part of a three-person compassionate use study, used a pig kidney with 69 gene edits provided by U ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.

A Concord man is the latest recipient of an unusual procedure: He's had his kidney replaced with one from a pig.

For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.

His effort paid off: Tim Andrews, 66, is only the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Andrews is free from ...

Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their ...

An Alabama grandmother who was the first patient to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney more than two ...

Her operation marks the third time a kidney from a gene-edited pig has been transplanted into a living human. Photo credit: ABC News Towana Looney is still thriving after receiving a pig organ ...

HealthDay News — An Alabama woman has become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, passing 60 days with a gene-edited kidney and showing no signs of slowing down. “I’m superwoman,” ...

Late last year, 53-year old Towana Looney, of Gadsden, Alabama, became the third patient to receive a kidney from a genetically engineered pig and she is still thriving. This advance in the field ...

MONDAY, Jan. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- An Alabama woman has become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, passing 60 days with a gene-edited kidney and showing no signs of ...