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

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

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

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Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

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Vicki Haggen is one of the world’s longest-surviving kidney transplant patients after her sister donated one of her kidneys ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

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 ...

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Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April. He and her doctors decided it would be less risky to remove the pig's kidney than to try saving it. "We did the safe thing ...