Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

All April long we've been marking National Donate Life month by partnering with the Gift of Life organization and sharing ...

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

A new explainable AI tool shows strong accuracy in predicting hospital readmission after renal transplantation, offering clinicians greater risk insight.

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.

Abdominal transplant chief Kenneth Chavin of Temple Health says getting a cadaver kidney can now take four to seven years. A living donor means a transplant sooner and slightly better long-term ...

Mason Combs needed medication due to his kidney transplant, authorities said. Authorities said a missing 10-year-old boy who recently underwent a kidney transplant and needed medication has been ...

Now, Luka is ready for a kidney transplant, and his family is searching for a suitable donor. "He's now big enough for a kidney transplant, so we are now looking for people to see if they'd be a ...

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

Dr Robert Montgomery, who performed the transplant, said removal of the kidney, also called an “explant”, is not a step backward in the field of xenotransplantation (the use of animal organs ...