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

Thousands of patients on the list die each year, and thousands more come off the list because their health has worsened to ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

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.

A Bellingham woman is celebrating 50 years since she underwent a kidney transplant in 1975, which was a relatively new ...

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.

The recipient died the following month after receiving the body part, state health officials ... A Florida resident died in 2013 after receiving a kidney transplant about a year earlier after ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant ... to a brain-dead human body to filter blood, much ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable ...

Fisher is hopeful about the advancements but is concerned about how Lemieux's body would respond to a pig kidney transplant because undergoing the surgery would trigger the immune response to ...