Now, pigs are being genetically modified so their organs are more human-like — increasing hope that they might one day help fill a shortage of donated organs. More than 100,000 people are on the ...

Many will die waiting. Some scientists see new hope for these people in organs from pigs that have been engineered to work ...

In an effort to ease the nation's organ shortage, scientists are transforming pig livers to look and act like human ones. Workers in a suburban Minneapolis lab dissolve pig cells that made the ...

All four patients who received pig organs to replace their diseased organs have now died, though researchers involved in these transplants say they will keep trying to improve this alternative ...

Lisa Pisano, the fourth person to ever receive an organ from a pig, had to have the kidney removed after doctors decided it was doing more harm than good. The other three patients who have ...

Looney's transplant was part of a larger effort to provide genetically engineered pig organs to help solve the human organ shortage. A handful of other patients have received pig kidneys and hearts.

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, a 53 ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig ...

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting.

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

Towana Looney is the fifth patient to be given a gene-edited pig organ since 2022, none of whom survived two months ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty An Alabama woman has become the longest living ...