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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...

reported the only side effect of his transplant surgery was seeing flashes of light in his face. Such reports raise questions about the potential for organs to carry physiological functions and ...

He was on the transplant wait list for a new kidney, but his blood type made it particularly difficult to find a donor organ ... seeing her that evening after surgery, and she already had this ...