The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

Eventually, its tissues scar, and if the organ fails, a liver transplant is the only solution. Donor livers are hard to come by, however. This week, a Chinese team turned to another source—pig ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

Pig market analyst John Strak wrote in February 2025 that the global pig price cycle will not maintain its current upward phase in the early part of 2025. We are now in the spring of 2025 and it seems ...

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The study offers the latest evidence that gene-modified pig organs could be a viable option for people suffering from organ failure. Scientists in China have transplanted a modified pig liver into ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

A pig’s liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time, marking a significant development in organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China carried out ...

The pig liver produced far smaller amounts of bile and albumin than a human liver could achieve, Lin said. More research is needed—including studying the pig liver for more than 10 days, he added.

Towana Looney lived for more than four months with a kidney from a pig instead of her own damaged ones. But in early April, her body ‒ which had tolerated the kidney longer than any human had ...