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

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

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

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

The incredibly rare type of surgery has been performed fewer than 80 times in the last two decades in the country. Cestoni ...

It can be unusual for a husband and wife to be a transplant match because several factors are required, including blood and ...

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

As Dana and Damon Bottoms recover from kidney transplant surgery, they're trying to let other people know how easy it can be ...

They decided to work with recently removed but still live ... transplant surgeons at Mass General, opened the pig’s abdomen and prepared the animal for the surgery. At 10:30, they sewed the ...

She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant Institute ... Looney donated a kidney to help save her mother’s life in 1999 but later developed kidney failure after ...

The incredibly rare type of surgery has been performed fewer than 80 times in the last two decades in the country. Cestoni ...