Cattle are supposed to be stunned and rendered insensible to pain with a bolt or bullet in the head before they are processed ...

An Iowa ag company accused of operating a billion-dollar scheme is being sued by a lender that says 110,000 piglets in SD are ...

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

Pigs bred for animal-to-human organ transplant experiments are usually genetically modified to reduce the chance that the ...

It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig organ, marking another step forward in the burgeoning field of xenotransplantation, or the practice of transplanting animal organs into humans.

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it. Towana Looney from Gadsden, Ala., returned home following her April 4 surgery at ...