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

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

When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a groundbreaking medical feat for alternative organ ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover ...

The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However, her immune system rejected the organ. Doctors removed the kidney ...

had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the genetically modified organ, according to NYU Langone Health in New York. The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop ...

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

Looney has been receiving dialysis since 2016 and was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney ... after the transplant. Those factors may have combined to damage the new kidney, he said.

Anti-Corruption Circle arrested the ringleader of a gang involved in illegal kidney transplants, as part of an ongoing nationwide crackdown on the illegal organ trade.A FIA spokesperson said here on ...

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

Balochistan Institute of Nephro-Urology Quetta on Tuesday said that kidney transplant operations are being started again ...

Mediheal Group of Hospitals has claimed its kidney transplant success rate stands at 98 per cent as it dismissed allegations ...