The machine, nicknamed "lungs in a box", mimics the human body and surgeon Marius Burman said it could increase the number of ...

Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ — and notably, she isn’t as sick as prior recipients who ...

Looney's slow recovery has sparked hope that one day pig kidneys could assist in alleviating the ongoing organ shortage, ...

Genetically modified pig organs may be the answer to the shortage of human organs for those in dire need of a transplant.

Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller's latest large wager on biotech company Natera Inc has paid off, with his stake now ...

Towana Looney became the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically modified pig last ...

A 53-year-old woman from Alabama has a new lease on life after receiving a gene-edited kidney obtained from a pig.

Towana Looney of Alabama received a successful pig kidney transplant. NYU Langone Drs. Robert Montgomery and Marc Siegel ...

Attempts at animal-to-human transplants failed for decades. Now scientists can edit pig genes, trying to bridge the species ...

Pheromones—chemicals produced by animals—are well-known for influencing the social and sexual behavior of members of the same ...

2024 marked a big year for the field of xenotransplantation, with surgical teams at several health systems completing historic procedures that could pave the way for broader adoption of ...