U.S. researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by temporarily filtering their blood so their own organ can rest and maybe heal.

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...

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 lived for more than four months with a kidney from a pig instead of her own damaged ones. But in early April, ...

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

0001). These results were found to be consistent across all subgroups (eg, C3G, IC-MPGN, adolescents, adults, native and post-transplant kidneys). Additionally, stabilization of kidney function ...

The liver and kidneys are the body's built-in detoxifiers, working around the clock to filter out toxins, process nutrients, and keep everything in balance. But stress, processed foods ...

Nearly a year after performing the first transplant of a pig kidney into a living human recipient, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, reported that a second patient is doing well after ...

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 ...

The procedure comes weeks after Chinese researchers successfully transplanted a gene-engineered pig kidney into a uremic patient. A medical team from Xijing Hospital of the Air Force Medical ...