An Alabama woman passed a major milestone on Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy ... a significant period of time,” he said.

Towana Looney is the fifth patient to be given a gene-edited pig organ since ... after her November transplant. The patient was discharged from the hospital 11 days after surgery.

Looney’s progress is helping scientists prepare for formal studies of pig organ transplants ... Discharged just 11 days after the Nov. 25 surgery, Montgomery’s team has closely tracked ...

Photo credit: ABC News Towana Looney is still thriving after receiving a pig organ transplant ... a significant period of time.” Looney’s journey began after her remaining kidney failed ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.

In the absence of accessible, integrated, multidimensional patient data, the organ transplant system will remain both highly ...

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ ...

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

for example — but transplant surgery has the additional difficulty of organ rejection. "Each human being is unique and we express a set of proteins called Human Leucocyte Antigens (HLA), which ...

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...