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

Recipients of kidney transplants in high heat index settings show higher rates of adverse kidney outcomes than transplant ...

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

Over nearly 5 years of follow-up, kidney transplant recipients exposed to hot temperatures also had a 30% higher risk for a ...

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

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

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

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

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

The transplant is part of a multi-patient study and the first done on three patients who were diagnosed with kidney failure and listed as needing a transplant, eGenesis officials said in an online ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

The government has suspended all transplant services at the Mediheal Group of Hospitals. The directive takes effect ...