Surgeries for the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, pancreas, duodenum, and spleen are tricky because these organs are not only ...

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

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

At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of ...

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 ...

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.

becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig while alive. She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant Institute, staying at an apartment near ...

It can be unusual for a husband and wife to be a transplant match because several factors are required, including blood and ...

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