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 ...

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

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months ...

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

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

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

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

Doctors say they’ve removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman after she lived with the organ for a record 130 days. Towana ...

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 ...

As Dana and Damon Bottoms recover from kidney transplant surgery, they're trying to let other people know how easy it can be ...