An NYU Langone Health patient lived with a pig kidney for 130 days before she experienced an organ rejection. On April 4, the ...

So once you’re in the operating room, it’s pretty similar to a regular kidney transplant surgery. You have the surgeon who’s starting the surgery and then surgeons go to the farm and they procure the ...

The kidney was removed Friday, The Times said. United Therapeutics Corporation, the biotech company that created the pig used in the transplant, said the organ had functioned well until the ...

The pig was missing one kidney and needed an implant ... There is a severe and ongoing shortage of kidneys for transplants — more than 92,000 people are on waiting lists. One reason is that ...

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place a record 130 days.

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However, her immune system rejected the organ. Doctors removed the kidney on ...

Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use of animal organs remains a distant goal, but doctors took some hope since the pig kidney did its blood-filtering work ...

Towana Looney, a pig kidney transplant recipient, gets a morning check-up with Dr. Jeffrey Stern at NYU Langone Health in New York, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. AP “Though the outcome is not what ...

open image in gallery Pig kidney transplant recipient Towana Looney had suffered an infection linked to her prior time on dialysis. Dialysis is a treatment for people whose kidneys are failing.