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

Why is pig’s kidney used for transplantation? Pigs are often used for xenotransplantation because their organs are similar in size and function to human organs. Xenotransplantation is the ...

When she heard about the option to try a pig kidney transplantation, she jumped at the chance to try it. “Without a pathway to receiving a human kidney, she decided a gene-edited pig kidney was ...

A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...

Other transplant surgeons at Dr. Uygun’s hospital are starting to experiment with genetically modified pig kidneys. They have transplanted them into several human patients, with mixed outcomes.

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...

Looney had been on dialysis since 2016 and didn't qualify for a regular transplant - her body was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney. So she sought out a pig kidney and it functioned well ...

When she heard about the option to try a pig kidney transplantation, she jumped at the chance to try it. “Without a pathway to receiving a human kidney, she decided a gene-edited pig kidney was worth ...

WASHINGTON – Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted ... a chronic shortage of available human kidneys. Her body’s eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable ...

ALABAMA - Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in ... a chronic shortage of available human kidneys. Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use ...