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.

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

For decades, scientists and surgeons around the world have been trying to solve the organ donor crisis. The answer could be ...

Transplanting animal organs into humans, known as xenotransplantation, has long felt like science fiction. But in the past ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with the animal’s organ set a record, the hospital ...

Now researchers are attempting these transplants in slightly less sick patients, like Looney. A New Hampshire man who received a pig kidney in January is faring well and a rigorous study of pig ...

At 3 a.m. the team started thawing the kidney, a process that took two hours. At 9 a.m., Dr. Alban Longchamp and Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, transplant surgeons at Mass General, opened the pig’s abdomen ...