FILE – This image provided by Massachusetts General Hospital shows Tim Andrews smiling as he leaves Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Feb. 1, 2025. (Kate Flock/Massachusetts General Hospital via AP, file) Surgeons removed a genetically modified pig kidney from a 67-year-old man last week, nearly nine months after he received the pioneering procedure at […]
Doctors in China have reported a major milestone in organ transplantation after a 71-year-old man lived 171 days following the world’s first published pig liver transplant. The surgery, performed in May 2024 at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, involved transplanting a genetically modified liver from an 11-month-old pig. The patient initially survived […]
Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig’s kidney from an Alabama woman after she experienced acute organ rejection, NYU Langone Health officials said Friday.Towana Looney, 53, lived with the kidney for 130 days, which is longer than anyone else has tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. She has resumed dialysis, hospital officials said.Dr Robert […]
