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

Renowned surgeon and humanitarian Dr. Robert Montgomery has revolutionized organ transplantation, expanding access and ...

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...

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

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

In a landmark case for xenotransplantation, 53-year-old Towana Looney from Alabama had a genetically modified pig kidney ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it ...

The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop alternatives to scarce human organs ... pig kidney functioned ...

It was not long ago, in 1954, that the first human organ, a kidney ... Now, however, the breakthrough enabling the desired, long-term acceptance of a pig kidney transplant is a genetic modification to ...