United Therapeutics and eGenesis will test genetically modified pig organs on kidney patients Experts say the the trials are promising but raise safety and ethical concerns TUESDAY, Feb. 4, 2025 ...

The idea of using pig organs in humans is not new — one of the first recorded instances was in 1838, when a doctor transplanted a pig cornea into a human in an unsuccessful attempt to fix their ...

The first clinical trial testing whether pig kidneys can be safely transplanted into living people has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As part of the trial, which will ...

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 ...

These elements complement and conflict with each other. The year 2025 belongs to the snake, but if you were born in the Year of the Pig, here’s everything you need to know and more: 1.

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 ...

Supply and demand are in relative balance, with producers all making money. Bit by bit, China’s pig industry is facing a new reality. Productivity is expected to gradually increase in the coming years ...

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday by becoming the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting.

In November 2024, physicians transplated a kidney from a United pig (called a UKidney) with 10 gene edits into Towana Looney, a 53-year-old Alabama woman. Looney, who is now the longest-living ...

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting.

Towana Looney, who received a pig kidney transplant in November 2024, goes over notes about her recovery with Dr. Jeffrey Stern at NYU Langone Health in New York, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ ...