In September 2021, doctors performed a similar experiment with a brain-dead patient at NYU Langone Health, during which they attached one genetically modified pig kidney to the patient, Live ...

Towana Looney of Alabama received a successful pig kidney transplant. NYU Langone Drs. Robert Montgomery and Marc Siegel comment on what this means for the future of transplant accessibility.

The patient was in kidney failure and her immune system would reject a human organ. Scientists hope genetically modified pig organs prove safe and will alleviate the organ shortage and save lives.

A pig's kidney has been transplanted into a human and was not immediately rejected for the first time. The medical advancement, called a "transformative moment" by researchers, could pave the way ...

Fast forward to late 2023, when patients at a National Kidney Foundation meeting with FDA officials and pig developers described a life so miserable on dialysis that they, too, would chance an ...

Surgeons attached the pig kidney to blood vessels by the upper leg, and monitored how it functioned outside the body for 54 hours. This was a proof of concept surgery, ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital said they transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a living human for the first time. The 62-year-old recipient has end-stage kidney disease.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Animal Pharm” on Sunday, May 18 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN. Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but ...

Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a third person, moving xenotransplants closer to trials. Recipient had donated a kidney to her mother, then no human organ could be found for her.

The pig, which donated its life and its kidney to Slayman, was raised on a farm in an undisclosed Midwestern location and flown to Boston for the procedure, said Mike Curtis, CEO of eGenesis, the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Animal Pharm” on Sunday, May 18 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN. Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but ...