A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of ...

Kidney failure affects millions worldwide, and the number keeps rising. Each year, the global population of patients with end ...

Our bodies can function perfectly fine with one kidney, whereas the liver can grow back (doctors only take out a piece for transplantation). While there are some short-term risks—as with any ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April. He and her doctors decided it would be less risky to remove the pig's kidney than to try saving it. "We did the safe thing ...

One carried his blood to an artificial kidney that removed any ... with active cancer to be considered for and undergo a kidney transplant. (Courtesy Ross family) Andrew Ross (left) with his ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

Reagan received the transplant at the renal unit at Birmingham's Children's Hospital in 2024, after being diagnosed with kidney disease as a baby. He is one of about 30 children to have the ...