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 ...

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 ...

The longest-living recipient of ... that made the 10 gene-edited pig kidney for Ms. Looney’s surgery, plans to begin a clinical trial of pig-kidney transplantation this year.

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

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 ...

Towana Looney's transplanted pig kidney was removed after 130 ... Americans are currently waiting on organ transplant lists, hoping for a living person to donate one of their kidneys or for ...