Her body began rejecting the pig kidney after a record 130 days. AP Before Looney’s transplant only four other Americans had received experimental xenotransplants of gene-edited pig organs ...

Surgeon Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin is a leader in the novel field of xenotransplantation—transferring organs from one species to another—in his case, from pigs to humans.

Just the other day, at lunch with seven of my 70-year-old undergrad college chums, I silently compared my life to theirs.

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

Additional edits to pig organs or progress in tolerance medicine might make long-term immunosuppression unnecessary. “You’ll ...

Scientists have been exploring alternatives for decades, including using pig organs because of their similarity to human organs. Last year, Penn Medicine did the first successful external liver ...

But some people, along with other mammals like guinea pigs, can develop resistance to ticks after enough exposure. A new study, published yesterday in Science Translational Medicine, examined how ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday -- a disappointment in the ...