The 53-year-old from Alabama has now become the latest recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney - and is currently the only living person with an animal organ transplant - a New York hospital has ...

The successful transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney into a human patient has raised hopes that cutting-edge technology can make pig organs safe for other transplant patients. Towana Looney ...

Without a pathway to receiving a human kidney, she decided a gene-edited pig kidney was worth a try, and a lot of people rallied around her decision, including her husband and family.” ...

A woman in Alabama is recovering after receiving a gene-edited pig kidney in a breakthrough surgery, which represents some of the earliest stages of research into animal transplants for humans.

A cure for heart failure could be on the horizon after scientists inserted a gene into ailing pigs, allowing their hearts to pump blood at normal levels again. Researchers at the University of ...

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.

Towana Looney, 53, who received a gene-edited pig kidney undergoes medical testing at NYU Langone Health on December 11, 2024 in New York. – On a farm in the southern US state of Virginia ...

An Alabama woman received a gene-edited pig kidney. This marks the third such successful transplant. The procedure took place at a New York hospital. The patient had previously donated a kidney ...

China has successfully performed the world's first gene-edited pig xenotransplantation surgery for whole liver transplantation in a brain-dead patient, achieving the complete replacement of a ...

Therefore, the preparation and PRINS of porcine pachytene bivalents will lay a foundation for high-resolution physical gene mapping in the pig. Two-color PRINS of GH and SW60 on pachytene ...