Woman speaks out after receiving gene-edited pig kidney transplant. Towana Looney says she feels "blessed" and now has a "second chance at life." By Dr. Niki Iranpour. December 18, 2024, 10:03 AM.

Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a third person, moving xenotransplants closer to trials. Recipient had donated a kidney to her mother, then no human organ could be found for her.

An Alabama woman has “never felt better” after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig, reports the New York Times’ Roni Caryn Rabin. When she underwent transplant surgery last ...

NEW YORK, DECEMBER 17, 2024—An Alabama woman is free from dialysis and in better health after surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed a gene-edited pig kidney transplant last month.The ...

Instead, the world's first gene-edited pig kidney transplants went to two sicker patients last spring, at Massachusetts General Hospital and NYU. Both also had serious heart disease.

The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. There was no evidence of xenograft rejection and the kidney was fully functioning.

The gene-edited pig kidney is measured prior to transplantation at NYU Langone Health in New York City on November 25, 2024. Photo by Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health.

Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old grandmother, was the next to receive a gene-edited pig’s kidney, the first time such a kidney had been transplanted in a person also receiving a heart pump; ...

The patient was in kidney failure and her immune system would reject a human organ. Scientists hope genetically modified pig organs prove safe and will alleviate the organ shortage and save lives.

An Alabama Woman Got a Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant. Three Weeks Later, She Has ‘Never Felt Better’ On November 25, 53-year-old Towana Looney became just the third living person to ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- An Alabama woman is free from dialysis and in better health after surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed a gene-edited pig kidney transplant last month ...