Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Jersey native Lisa Pisano has gotten a new lease on life, thanks to a combined transplant of a mechanical heart pump and a ...

A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney. The surgery, carried out at NYU Langone Health on April 12, also involved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig ...

Human kidneys are an intricate network of tubes that process roughly 190 quarts of blood every day. Lining these tubes are epithelial cells that transport blood through the kidneys and circulate it ...

NEW YORK — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Lisa Pisano’s combination of ...

The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been completed at NYU Langone Health, the system said Wednesday. The subject, 54-year-old Lisa ...

Another milestone in pig-to-human transplantation has been crossed, with doctors at New York University Langone today announcing the world’s first combination pig kidney and heart pump transplant. The ...

The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Innovation Fund announced it has made an investment in Northernmost, a medical device company to aid in the development of the company's kidney pump, NoMo. NoMo ...

A woman who received a kidney from a gene-edited pig is back on dialysis just 47 days after the surgery as doctors had to remove the gradually failing organ. According to NYU Langone Health, Lisa ...