Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney, is headed back home to Alabama.

The US FDA has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure, marking a major step forward in cross-species transplantation.

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease. The surgical team reported that the new kidney is functioning as expected.

So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig ...

Looney has been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead of her own. The longest anyone has survived with an organ from another species had been 60 days. The woman from Gadsen ...

(Bloomberg) -- The US Food and Drug Administration approved clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure. United Therapeutics Corp ...

Longest Pig Organ Transplant Survivor Passes 60 Days With New Kidney By India Edwards HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Jan. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- An Alabama woman has become the longest-living ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure, marking a major step forward in cross-species ...

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ transplant. By Roni Caryn Rabin The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ...