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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. regulators have approved a genetically modified pig for food and medical products, making it the second such animal to get the green light for human consumption. But the company ...

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 ...

A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

Towana Looney became the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically modified pig last month. Looney is a 53-year-old grandmother from Gadsden, Ala. She's been on ...

A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human recipient who had been declared brain dead, according to research published ...

Even though sparingly, cloned farm animals are now providing kidneys, hearts, livers, and other organs to save the lives of those who need transplants. While scientists say it is exciting as research, ...

An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors announced Tuesday. Towana Looney, 53, is off of kidney dialysis after ...

A new study in the Journal of Hepatology reports on an auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a living human recipient. The patient survived for 171 days, offering ...

A genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man and functioned for nine days, according to a newly published report. There has been some recent success transplanting pig kidneys ...