The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...

Looney said she also understands why the two kidney patients and especially the two heart transplant patients who went before her did not survive. The pig organ is so healthy, she said ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States.

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.

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

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure, an ...

Locke has been involved in the transplant and care of 53-year-old Towana Looney, who received a pig kidney from United Therapeutics in November at NYU Langone’s Transplant Institute. Looney ...

NYU Langone Health has also conducted two genetically edited pig kidney transplants. The first was performed on Towana Looney, a US-based woman who – as of last month – became the longest ...