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

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 ...

They began by infusing an artificial glucose ... team started thawing the kidney, a process that took two hours. At 9 a.m., Dr. Alban Longchamp and Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, transplant surgeons at Mass ...

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 ...

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

Mukhaizeem KUWAIT, April 24 (KUNA) -- Kuwaiti doctors continue to prove their high professional competence and consisten ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Texas Tech Physicians and Covenant Health are working together to bring back kidney transplant surgeries. Transplant surgeon Dr. Lyndsey Biondi performed the first kidney ...

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

Towana Looney, a woman from Alabama, had lived with the gene-edited pig kidney for 130 days. She lived with the organ longer than any other transplant patient has tolerated a gene-edited animal organ.

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