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 ...

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 ...

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.

Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., gets ready to head into the operating room at NYU Langone Health in New York City to get a genetically modified pig kidney transplant.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...