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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration approved clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure. United Therapeutics Corp. will initially ...

Looney has now been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead of her own, beating the previous record of 60 days that anyone has survived with an organ from another species. The Gadsen ...

United Therapeutics and eGenesis will test genetically modified pig organs on kidney patients Experts say the the trials are promising but raise safety and ethical concerns TUESDAY, Feb. 4 ...

FDA Approves Clinical Trials for Pig Kidney Transplants in Humans By India Edwards HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Feb. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...