Shortly after the kidney was placed in the patient’s body, it started producing urine—a sign that it was functioning as it should. Tatsuo Kawai, one of the surgeons involved, said the ...

The kidney itself came from eGenesis, a biotechnology company that's developing human-compatible engineered organs. The company uses the famous gene-editing system CRISPR to tweak the genes of its ...

Looney had been on dialysis since 2016 and didn’t qualify for a regular transplant – her body was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney. So she sought out a pig kidney and it functioned ...

Doctors successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a woman who was too sick for a “traditional” organ transplant on Wednesday. Patient Lisa Pisano, 54, suffered from heart and kidney failure ...

By Amanda Sealy, CNN (CNN) — A genetically engineered pig kidney has been removed from a transplant patient after it started losing function, according to a statement on Friday from NYU Langone ...

He said they’ve put it off far too long. ‘It’s a learning curve’ Still, Andrews knows that the pig kidney may not work long-term. He’s still on the wait list for a human organ.

The kidney had to be removed due “unique challenges in managing both her cardiovascular health and kidney function” 47 days after the transplant, NYU Langone Health said.