What if organ transplants effect more than just biological function? Research suggests transplanted pig organs could carry ...

A San Antonio woman with kidney failure due to lupus seeks a living donor online, hoping to shorten a long transplant wait.

Research at Harvard—from medicine to technology to education and business—touches countless lives, moving us closer to ...

A California cancer survivor was the recipient of the world's first in-human bladder transplant this month thanks to a pair ...

Mass General's pig kidney transplant last month raised new ... Pisano is the first woman to receive a pig organ — and unlike with prior xenotransplant experiments, both her heart and kidneys ...

After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the routine ... Looney wouldn’t receive a human kidney. Instead, a pig’s kidney would be surgically implanted ...

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had ... In May of last year, Lisa Pisano, the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig, also had to have her kidney ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney ... Towana Looney, a pig kidney transplant recipient, gets a morning check-up with Dr. Jeffrey Stern at NYU Langone Health in New York, Friday, Jan. ...

By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig’s kidney from an Alabama woman after she experienced ... of them are on a waiting list to receive a kidney.

Siegel commended Looney on her "incredible" journey, which began when she donated her own kidney to her mother 25 ... Out of the seven pig organ transplants that have been performed at NYU Langone ...

An Alabama woman has successfully received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health. This was the seventh pig organ transplant completed by NYU Langone surgeons. Towana Looney ...

Towana Looney became the first living recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney transplant. It is a significant advancement in xenotransplantation. Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999 ...