United Therapeutics Corp. said Tuesday that its trial will start with six patients with end-stage renal ... of a pig organ transplant. Towana Looney, 53, in November received a pig’s kidney ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure, marking a major step forward in cross-species ...

United Therapeutics will initially include six people with end-stage renal disease in the study ... transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney produced by eGenesis using Crispr gene-editing ...

In late November she became the first person in the world to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney. Now two months have passed. Four other patients previously received different ...

The trial will initially enroll six patients with end-stage renal ... rates, kidney function, and the risk of zoonotic infections -- diseases that jump from animals to humans. Currently, there is only ...

Two US 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 ...