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

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 ...

Montgomery, who himself received a human heart transplant in 2018 ... But Montgomery stresses that no one knows how long Looney's pig kidney will last. "I hope that it lasts a good long time ...

Looney's first stop on the journey to a pig kidney transplant was back home in Alabama, where she came under the care of Dr. Jayme Locke, an innovative transplant surgeon working at the time at ...

How Looney fares is 'very precious experience,' said Dr. Tatsuo Kawai of Massachusetts General Hospital, who led the world’s first pig kidney transplant last year and works with another pig ...