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

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

Covenant Health, with Texas Tech Physicians, are offering the only kidney transplant surgery program in the region. The first has already proven successful.

This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant. She has returned to dialysis and awaits future transplant possibilities. Towana Looney lived for more than four months with ...

Recipients of kidney transplants in high heat index settings show higher rates of adverse kidney outcomes than transplant ...

Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...

BOSTON -- Exposure to high temperatures may be renally taxing for kidney transplant recipients, a researcher reported here. Among nearly 64,000 recipients from 250 transplant centers around the U ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

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 ...

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