Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday - a disappointment in ...

WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday — a ...

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 ...

But there was a catch: Looney wouldn’t receive a human kidney. Instead, a pig’s kidney would be surgically implanted inside the 53-year-old. The procedure of transferring organs from an animal ...

“For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement. HealthDay News — Doctors have removed a ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with the animal's organ set a record, the hospital that performed ...

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after ...

Towana Looney, a woman from Alabama, had lived with the gene-edited pig kidney for 130 days. She lived with the organ longer than any other transplant patient has tolerated a gene-edited animal organ.