The only person in the world with a functioning pig organ is thriving after a record 2 months
2 months ago

The only person in the world with a functioning pig organ is thriving after a record 2 months

Associated Press  

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting. “I’m superwoman,” Towana Looney told The Associated Press, laughing about outpacing family members on long walks around New York City as she continues her recovery. “If you saw her on the street, you would have no idea that she’s the only person in the world walking around with a pig organ inside them that’s functioning,” said Dr. Robert Montgomery of NYU Langone Health, who led Looney’s transplant. Montgomery called Looney’s kidney function “absolutely normal.” Doctors hope she can leave New York – where she’s temporarily living for post-transplant checkups – for her Gadsden, Alabama, home in about another month. How Looney fares is “very precious experience,” said Dr. Tatsuo Kawai of Massachusetts General Hospital, who led the world’s first pig kidney transplant last year and works with another pig developer, eGenesis.

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New Hampshire man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney
1 month, 2 weeks ago

New Hampshire man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney

Associated Press  

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment. As they monitor Andrews’ recovery, doctors at Mass General Brigham have Food and Drug Administration permission to perform two additional transplants in their pilot study, using gene-edited …

U.S. greenlights pig kidney transplant trials
1 month, 3 weeks ago

U.S. greenlights pig kidney transplant trials

Raw Story  

Two U.S. biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their gene-edited pig kidneys for human transplants. United Therapeutics along with another company, eGenesis, have been working since 2021 on experiments implanting pig kidneys into humans: initially brain-dead patients and more recently living recipients. United Therapeutics said trial patients would be monitored …

US FDA greenlights clinical trails for pig kidney transplants in humans
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

US FDA greenlights clinical trails for pig kidney transplants in humans

Live Mint  

The US Food and Drug Administration has greenlit clinical trails for organ transplants from genetically modified pigs. The study led by United Therapeutics Corp will begin with six patients facing end-stage renal disease — eventually being expanded to include 50 kidney failure patients. According to a statement released by the company on Monday, patients will receive a UKidney transplant followed …

Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone

NPR  

Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone toggle caption Rob Stein/NPR NEW YORK — Towana Looney is waiting to check in with her doctors at NYU Langone Health when it registers that she's passing a major milestone in her recovery from a kidney transplant. "I didn't realize that I was going to be the longest living person with an …

World’s longest-living recipient of pig organ transplant passes 60-day milestone
1 month, 3 weeks ago

World’s longest-living recipient of pig organ transplant passes 60-day milestone

Salon  

An Alabama woman who is also the second person in history to receive a pig kidney transplant is currently surviving for over, according to a recent report. Towana Looney received a pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health in November 2024, a pioneering surgery she received after waiting for seven years. Because she had a complex medical condition for which …

Meet the world’s longest-living recipient of pig organ transplant
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Meet the world’s longest-living recipient of pig organ transplant

Firstpost  

US-based woman, Towana Looney, passed a major milestone on Saturday by becoming the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant. ‘A superwoman’ Now Looney said she feels like a “superwoman” after the successful transplant, laughing about outpacing family members on long walks around New York City. Dr Montgomery said, “If you saw her on the street, you would have no …

‘I’m superwoman’: Alabama woman with pig organ inside her is thriving two months after transplant
2 months ago

‘I’m superwoman’: Alabama woman with pig organ inside her is thriving two months after transplant

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. "If you saw her on the street, you would have no idea that she's the …

US woman gets a second chance in life after pig kidney transplant: 'I'm overjoyed'
3 months, 1 week ago

US woman gets a second chance in life after pig kidney transplant: 'I'm overjoyed'

Hindustan Times  

Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999, only for the remaining one to fail years later due to pregnancy complications. Now, the 53-year-old from Alabama has become the latest recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney -- and is currently the only living person in the world with an animal organ transplant, New York's NYU Langone Hospital announced …

Who wants a pig organ? Patients sick and tired of waiting years for a transplant
3 months, 1 week ago

Who wants a pig organ? Patients sick and tired of waiting years for a transplant

India Today  

LOUISVILLE, Ky. : The calls and emails started coming into NYU Langone Health and Massachusetts General Hospital soon after doctors began experimenting with pig organs in humans. “I think it’s worth the shot.” Now two U.S. companies aim to begin the world’s first clinical trials of xenotransplantation in 2025 – using pig kidneys or hearts to try to save human …

Alabama woman is recovering well after receiving a pig kidney, doctors say
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3 months, 1 week ago

Alabama woman is recovering well after receiving a pig kidney, doctors say

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An Alabama woman is doing well after she received a pig …

Tired of long organ waitlists, these patients are hopeful for a pig organ transplant
3 months, 1 week ago

Tired of long organ waitlists, these patients are hopeful for a pig organ transplant

Associated Press  

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The calls and emails started coming into NYU Langone Health and Massachusetts General Hospital soon after doctors began experimenting with pig organs in humans. Pig kidney recipient Towana Looney sits with transplant surgeon Dr. Jayme Locke on Dec. 10, 2024, at NYU Langone Health, in New York City. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit …

A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney
55 years, 2 months ago

A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney

Wired  

An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors announced Tuesday. In March, 62-year-old Richard Slayman made history when he received a kidney from a genetically engineered pig at Massachusetts General Hospital. In the second attempt, this April, 54-year-old Lisa Pisano received both a kidney and thymus gland from …

An Alabama woman is doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplant
3 months, 1 week ago

An Alabama woman is doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplant

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. To have a working kidney — and to feel it — is unbelievable.” Pig kidney recipient Towana Looney is visited by transplant surgeon Dr. Robert Montgomery …

A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis
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3 months, 1 week ago

A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis

NPR  

A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis toggle caption Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health NEW YORK – Towana Looney can hardly contain her anticipation as she waits to get wheeled to an operating room at the NYU Langone Health hospital in New York City for an historic procedure. "It's going to change my life," …

Alabama woman recovering well after latest experimental pig kidney transplant
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3 months, 1 week ago

Alabama woman recovering well after latest experimental pig kidney transplant

India Today  

NEW YORK: An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ — and notably, she isn’t as sick as prior recipients who died within two months of …

Talking with the first person to receive a new kind of pig kidney transplant
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3 months, 1 week ago

Talking with the first person to receive a new kind of pig kidney transplant

NPR  

Talking with the first person to receive a new kind of pig kidney transplant NPR visits first person to get a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney two weeks after undergoing the historic procedure. ROB STEIN, BYLINE: It's been two weeks since I spent the day inside an OR at NYU Langone Health in New York City, watching surgeons …

Meet the world’s cleanest pigs – raised to grow kidneys and hearts for humans
8 months ago

Meet the world’s cleanest pigs – raised to grow kidneys and hearts for humans

The Independent  

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Meet Some of the World’s Cleanest Pigs, Raised to Grow Kidneys and Hearts for Humans
8 months ago

Meet Some of the World’s Cleanest Pigs, Raised to Grow Kidneys and Hearts for Humans

Deccan Chronicle  

Blacksburg: Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. “These are precious animals,” said David Ayares of Revivicor Inc., who spent decades learning to clone pigs with just the right genetic changes to allow those first audacious experiments. …

Meet some of the world’s cleanest pigs, raised to grow kidneys and hearts for humans
8 months ago

Meet some of the world’s cleanest pigs, raised to grow kidneys and hearts for humans

Associated Press  

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print In this photo provided by the United Therapeutics Corporation, genetically modified pigs stand inside …

A woman who received a pig kidney transplant plus a heart pump has died
8 months, 2 weeks ago

A woman who received a pig kidney transplant plus a heart pump has died

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A woman who received a pig kidney transplant -- along with an implanted device to keep her heart beating – has died, her surgeon announced Tuesday. The New Jersey woman initially seemed to be recovering well but about 47 days later, doctors had to remove the pig kidney and put Pisano back on dialysis after the organ was …

Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed
55 years, 2 months ago

Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed

Wired  

Surgeons in New York have removed a pig kidney less than two months after transplanting it into Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman with kidney failure who also needed a mechanical heart pump. The team behind the transplant says there were problems with the heart pump, not the pig kidney, and that the patient is in stable condition. Pisano first received …

Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the gradually failing organ after just 47 days. The first patient to receive a pig kidney transplant, Richard “Rick” Slayman at Massachusetts General Hospital, died in early May, nearly two months after his transplant. Pisano’s heart and kidneys were failing when, …

First patient to receive gene modified pig kidney transplant dies
10 months, 1 week ago

First patient to receive gene modified pig kidney transplant dies

Op India  

Richard Slayman, the first living patient to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure, the hospital that performed the surgery said on Saturday. While transplants of other organs from genetically modified pigs have failed in the past, Slayman’s operation to receive a genetically modified pig kidney was hailed as a historic …

First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later
10 months, 1 week ago

First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later

Associated Press  

BOSTON — The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure, his family and the hospital that performed the surgery said Saturday. The transplant team at Massachusetts General Hospital said in a statement it was deeply saddened by Slayman’s passing and offered condolences to his family. Slayman had a …

Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
55 years, 2 months ago

Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery

Wired  

A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney. The patient, Lisa Pisano, had a mechanical heart pump implanted days before getting the transplant. She was facing heart failure and end-stage kidney disease and wasn’t eligible for a human organ transplant because of other health issues. “When this opportunity came, I …

Doctors combine a pig kidney transplant and a heart device in a bid to extend woman's life
11 months ago

Doctors combine a pig kidney transplant and a heart device in a bid to extend woman's life

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Then doctors at NYU Langone Health devised a novel …

First pig kidney in a human: Is this the future of transplants?
11 months, 1 week ago

First pig kidney in a human: Is this the future of transplants?

Al Jazeera  

Could the successful transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney to a human spell the end of the organ shortage crisis? Richard “Rick” Slayman, 62, who had been suffering from end-stage kidney disease, no longer needs dialysis after the groundbreaking procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School’s biggest teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. “I am firmly convinced that xenotransplantation represents …

He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working
55 years, 2 months ago

He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working

Wired  

About a week after the transplant, Riella says, the team noticed signs of rejection, when the body’s immune system recognizes the donor organ as foreign and starts to attack it. Photograph: Massachusetts General Hospital “It's pretty miraculous this man's out of the hospital a couple of weeks after putting in a pig kidney,” says Steven Perrin, Eledon’s president and chief …

Scientifically Speaking | Pig organ transplants offer lifeline to waiting patients
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Scientifically Speaking | Pig organ transplants offer lifeline to waiting patients

Hindustan Times  

Earlier this month, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston achieved a first in medicine when they successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old man. Following the failure of a previous kidney transplant and life-threatening complications from dialysis, a pig kidney transplant now offers Richard “Rick” Slayman a solution that could potentially save his life. Also, in …

U.S. Surgeons Transplant Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Into A Patient For The First Time
1 year ago

U.S. Surgeons Transplant Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Into A Patient For The First Time

Huff Post  

Surgeons remove a gene-edited transplanted pig kidney from the body of Maurice “Mo” Miller at NYU Langone Health in New York on Sept. 13, 2023. AP Photo/Shelby Lum NEW YORK — Doctors in Boston have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient, the latest experiment in the quest to use animal organs in humans. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday …

US surgeons transplanted pig kidney into patient for the first time, hospital says
1 year ago

US surgeons transplanted pig kidney into patient for the first time, hospital says

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Doctors in Boston have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient, the latest experiment in the quest to use animal organs in humans. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday that it’s the first time a genetically modified pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. He noted that unlike the pig heart recipients who were very …

More people need transplants than there are organ donors. Pigs might offer a solution
1 year, 1 month ago

More people need transplants than there are organ donors. Pigs might offer a solution

CNN  

CNN — Last summer, after more than a decade of illness, Lawrence Faucette and his wife, Ann, faced the hard reality that the end of his life was near. But he felt strongly that if it could help doctors learn and eventually benefit others, he’d be fine with being “a human guinea pig,” Ann said. The pig heart transplant option …

A first-ever experiment shows how pigs might one day help people who have liver failure
1 year, 2 months ago

A first-ever experiment shows how pigs might one day help people who have liver failure

Associated Press  

Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure. In this case, the pig liver was used outside the donated body, not inside — a way to create a “bridge” to support failing livers by doing the organ’s blood-cleansing work …

Maryland man who was second person to receive a pig heart transplant dies
1 year, 4 months ago

Maryland man who was second person to receive a pig heart transplant dies

LA Times  

Lawrence Faucette, only the second person to receive a pig heart transplant, sits with his wife, Ann, in a Baltimore hospital before the operation in September. Only the second person ever to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his doctors in Maryland announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying …

Pig heart transplant: Second recipient dies 40 days after surgery | Deets here
1 year, 4 months ago

Pig heart transplant: Second recipient dies 40 days after surgery | Deets here

India TV News  

Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine announced that the recipient of the second-ever genetically modified pig's heart transplant has died. The deceased Lawrence Faucette suffering from terminal heart disease became the second patient in the world to receive a transplant of a genetically modified pig heart on September 20. “Faucette's last wish was for us to make …

Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital says
1 year, 4 months ago

Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital says

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20. He never imagined he would survive …

A pig heart transplant is still working a month later, a promising result for the future of medicine
1 year, 5 months ago

A pig heart transplant is still working a month later, a promising result for the future of medicine

Salon  

With a month behind him and the world's second transplanted pig heart inside him, new results from the University of Maryland School of Medicine show that xenotransplant recipient Lawrence Faucette is regaining strength and recovering from the surgery with no signs of organ rejection so far. After decades of failed animal-to-human transplants, Faucette became the second patient to receive the …

A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far
1 year, 5 months ago

A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — It’s been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig –- and hospital video released Friday shows he’s working hard to recover. In the first glimpse of Faucette provided since the Sept. 20 transplant, hospital video shows physical therapist Chris Wells urging him to smile while pushing through …

Gene-edited pig kidney keeps monkey alive for 2 years, trial finds, a step toward longer-lasting human transplants
1 year, 5 months ago

Gene-edited pig kidney keeps monkey alive for 2 years, trial finds, a step toward longer-lasting human transplants

CNN  

CNN — About 13 people die every day while waiting for a kidney transplant because of a lack of organ donors, but some scientists think pigs could be the answer. In a new trial that researchers say is the largest of its kind, researchers transplanted kidneys from genetically modified pigs into monkeys that lived for what’s considered a record amount …

From Neuralink to infectious diseases
1 year, 5 months ago

From Neuralink to infectious diseases

The Hindu  

It is impossible to ignore the allure of technology, particularly when it cohabits a sweet spot, intersecting with human health. The latest update on Elon Musk’s Neuralink to start human trials of brain implants for paralysis patients will sit squarely in that bracket. Two days after surgery, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair; the …

Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man
1 year, 6 months ago

Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man

The Hindu  

Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. “You know, I just keep shaking my head – how am I talking to someone who has a pig heart?” Dr. Bartley Griffith, who performed the transplant, told The Associated Press. …

Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man
1 year, 6 months ago

Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. “You know, I just keep shaking my head – how am I talking to someone who has a pig heart?” Dr. Bartley Griffith, who performed the transplant, told The …

Groundbreaking transplant of pig heart into living recipient is performed for the second time ever
1 year, 6 months ago

Groundbreaking transplant of pig heart into living recipient is performed for the second time ever

CNN  

CNN — For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday. “My only real hope left is to go with the pig heart, the xenotransplant,” Faucette told the hospital in an internal interview several days before the surgery. According to the FDA, the program …

Pig Kidney Works 2 Months In Donated Body, Raising Hope For Animal-Human Transplants
1 year, 6 months ago

Pig Kidney Works 2 Months In Donated Body, Raising Hope For Animal-Human Transplants

Huff Post  

Relatives of Maurice “Mo” Miller, Mary Miller-Duffy, his sister, right, and her wife, Sue Duffy, stand with his body at NYU Langone Health in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. The dramatic experiment came to an end Wednesday as surgeons at NYU Langone Health removed the pig kidney and returned the donated body of Maurice “Mo” Miller to his …

Surgeons, Who Transplanted Pig Kidney in Brain-Dead Man, Say Organ Functioned Properly for 2 Months
1 year, 6 months ago

Surgeons, Who Transplanted Pig Kidney in Brain-Dead Man, Say Organ Functioned Properly for 2 Months

News 18  

US surgeons who transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead patient announced Thursday they had ended their experiment after a record-breaking 61 days. “We have learned a great deal throughout these past two months of close observation and analysis, and there is great reason to be hopeful for the future,” said Robert Montgomery, director of the New York …

Pig kidney works a record 2 months in donated body, raising hope for animal-human transplants
1 year, 6 months ago

Pig kidney works a record 2 months in donated body, raising hope for animal-human transplants

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them. The dramatic experiment came to an end Wednesday as surgeons at NYU Langone Health removed the pig kidney and returned the donated body of Maurice …

Research team reports longest successful transplant of a pig kidney into a human
1 year, 6 months ago

Research team reports longest successful transplant of a pig kidney into a human

CNN  

CNN — A pig kidney successfully functioned in a human body for about two months, marking the longest documented case of a xenotransplant of its kind. In July, researchers at NYU Langone Health transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into the body of a 58-year-old man named Maurice Miller, known as Mo, who had a brain tumor and was experiencing …

Pigs and human organs: The groundbreaking study setting the science world alight
1 year, 6 months ago

Pigs and human organs: The groundbreaking study setting the science world alight

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Rat organs have been produced in mice, and mouse …

How a family’s choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants
1 year, 7 months ago

How a family’s choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Mary Miller-Duffy was dazed and grieving. That’s how the body of Maurice “Mo” Miller started its journey to a sunny corner of NYU Langone Health’s intensive care unit — and became part of the quest to one day ease the nation’s transplant shortage with organs from animals. “This tragic death, this fast short death — something good …

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