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

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

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...

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

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

A local family is urgently seeking a kidney donor for their 17-month-old son, Luka, whose life has been marked by medical ...

This occurs even as a significant number of offered kidneys, currently exceeding 25%, are declined for transplantation by all ...

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.

Ms Towana Looney lived for four months with the animal’s organ before her body rejected it. Read more at straitstimes.com.

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig while alive. She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant Institute, staying at an apartment near ...