Massachusetts-based researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the genetically modified ...

A Japanese patient paralyzed for years can now stand unaided after participating in a groundbreaking clinical trial using reprogrammed stem cells. Conducted by Hideyuki Okano at Keio University ...

The early stages of kidney damage may cause few or no symptoms. However, as damage accumulates and prevents the kidneys from functioning correctly, people may begin to notice symptoms. These may ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks after surgery, doctors say she's doing well. The woman, reportedly 69 years old ...

Despite her husband’s condition, his kidneys, lungs, and corneas remained viable. Doctors at the hospital then asked Mashita if she would consider donating her husband’s organs. Without ...

First, the close proximity between the menstrual cup and the right ureteral ostium suggested a mechanical effect of the menstrual cup, potentially obstructing urine drainage from the right kidney ...

David Bennett Sr. was the first person to get a gene-edited pig heart, in 2022, and Richard Slayman was the first to get a kidney, in early 2024. Unfortunately, both men died around two months ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be ...