Woman recovering after risky pig kidney transplant. It could 'help so many people.' Four people who received pig organs died within two months of transplant.

Richard Slayman, the first person to ever receive a kidney from a pig, has died, according to Massachusetts General Hospital, where the transplant was performed in March. In a statement late ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig ...

Pig kidney transplant into brain-dead man could be a game-changer By . Alex Mitchell and Marc Lallanilla. Published Aug. 16, 2023. Updated Aug. 16, 2023, 3:55 p.m. ET. Explore More ...

Surgeons Transplant Pig Kidney Into a Patient, a Medical Milestone The man continues to improve, doctors said. Organs from genetically engineered pigs one day may make dialysis obsolete.

Transplants Woman receives pig kidney transplant, walks out of hospital days later: ‘Second chance' Cross-species organ transplants are 'the future' of transplant medicine, say NYU Langone doctors ...

The pig kidneys can clearly make urine and clear out waste, like their human counterpart, but a longer transplant will be ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.

Why an experimental pig kidney transplant offers new hope for thousands awaiting donors 04:00. A 53-year-old Alabama woman is now free from years of dialysis after receiving a pig kidney ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for ...