A genetically modified pig kidney was removed from a 54-year-old transplant patient Lisa Pisano of New Jersey, after it started to lose its function. NYU Langone Health announced on Friday (May 31) that Pisano is now stable and has resumed dialysis.

Gene-edited pig kidney removed from woman patient after 47 days

In China, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig's kidney with multiple gene edits into a brain-dead human recipient. The transplantation, as per reports, has been "working continuously for 13 days.

Doctors in China successfully transplant pig kidney into brain-dead human patient

A pig kidney has been transplanted into a person for the first time without causing rapid rejection by the recipient's immune system, a potentially significant development that might ultimately help ease a critical scarcity of human organs for transplant.

Watch: US doctors successfully test a pig kidney transplant on a human patient 