A 53-year-old Alabama woman became the third patient in the US to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig. A team of surgeons from NYU Langone Health operated.

NEW YORK (AP) — An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs.

At Mayo Clinic, researchers published more than 10,000 scientific papers in 2024 that are driving medical discoveries, ...

The organs of an American tourist who was critically injured during a hiking trip in Crete were donated after she was ...

An Oxfordshire woman with a complex medical history died in hospital, an inquest opening heard. Dawn Jarvey, of Charlton Road, Wantage, died at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on November 29. An ...

An Alabama woman has successfully received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health. This was the seventh pig organ transplant completed by NYU Langone surgeons. Towana Looney, 53, ...

An Alabama woman has successfully received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health. This was the seventh pig organ transplant completed by NYU Langone surgeons. Towana Looney ...

A woman in Alabama ... animal organs in human transplant procedures, in 2021. NYU Langone Health has now performed seven such procedures, many of them in deceased or brain-dead recipients.

Montgomery, a pioneer in the field who performed the world’s first gene-edited pig organ transplant in a brain-dead patient in 2021, said both methods are likely to enter clinical trials “probably by ...

Montgomery, a pioneer in the field who performed the world's first gene-edited pig organ transplant in a brain-dead patient in 2021, said both methods are likely to enter clinical trials "probably ...