Though some pigs in other transplant experiments have anywhere from three to 10 gene edits, the cloned pig used in Slayman's transplant had 69 edits, Curtis said.

Pigs intended for transplant are kept separate from the food supply. ... He began cleaning a pig kidney while surgeons Bonnie Lonze, and Zoe Stewart Lewis prepped the woman’s body.

A modified pig kidney has functioned successfully in a human body for a month now, setting a record for animal-to-human kidney transplants, NYU Langone doctors said Wednesday. The genetically alter… ...

In Alabama, kidney disease rates are unusually high in adults ages 45 to 64. Kidney patients who do not receive transplants from a compatible donor must undergo dialysis treatments about three ...

In this photo provided by NYU Langone Health, a gene-edited pig kidney with thymus is removed from its transport container to be prepared for transplantation at the hospital in New York on April ...

The team has been monitoring pig kidney transplants in a brain-dead decedent – a man named Maurice Miller, known as Mo, who died of a brain tumor – for nearly two months.

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for lifesaving transplants.

Doctors say Lisa Pisano, who received a pig kidney transplant, is back on dialysis after surgeons removed the gradually failing organ. Pisano was the second person to receive a kidney from a gene ...

Transplantation is the gold standard treatment for end-stage kidney disease, but fewer than 25,000 kidney transplants are performed each year in the United States, the UAB researchers said.

Pig kidney recipient Richard Slayman with (left to right) Leo Riella, medical director of kidney transplantation; Nahel Elias, interim chief of transplant surgery; his partner, Faren; and Tatsuo ...

Slayman's transplant journey began in late March, when he first received a kidney from a genetically modified pig. The 62-year-old was released from the hospital just two weeks later because he ...

Pig heart transplants have also been carried out in two individuals—one in 2022 and the other in 2023—at the University of Maryland. In both cases, the patients were not eligible for human ones.