One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and ...

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

In a historic first, a kidney from a genetically modified pig was successfully transplanted into a human. Researchers hope for more of this kind of transplant because there aren’t enough human ...

Patient receives kidney from genetically engineered pig in medical breakthrough that could end dialysis By . Emily Crane. Published March 21, 2024. Updated March 21, 2024, 10:33 a.m. ET.

Researchers have announced success from a pair of experimental pig-to-human heart transplant procedures completed on recently deceased human subjects who were kept on mechanical ventilation for ...

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 ...

Some people say it’s wrong to kill pigs, because you have to take their organs out in order to give them to humans. I don’t buy that; I think human life is higher value than pig life, and the ...

NEW YORK ‒ If records are meant to be broken, Towana Looney is grateful to be a record-breaker. Looney has been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead of her own. The longest ...

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.

In an Eden Prairie lab, clear containers hold pig kidneys and livers that scientists hope will someday be transplantable in humans. Miromatrix Medical, a biomedical firm based in the Twin Cities ...