Towana Looney, 53, in November received a pig’s kidney with 10 gene edits designed to reduce the risk of organ rejection. The first recipient, Richard Slayman, a 62-year-old worker for the ...

In late November she became the first person in the world to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney. Now two months have passed. Four other patients previously received different ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure, marking a major step forward in cross-species ...

Last year, doctors successfully transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney produced by eGenesis Inc. using Crispr gene-editing technology into a 62-year-old man for the first time. The man died ...

In late November she became the first person in the world to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney. Now two months have passed. Four other patients previously received different kinds ...

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ transplant. By Roni Caryn Rabin The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ...

Currently, there is only one living human recipient of a pig organ: Towana Looney, a 53-year-old from Alabama who received a United Therapeutics kidney on November 25, 2024. She is also the ...