In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement.

Renowned surgeon and humanitarian Dr. Robert Montgomery has revolutionized organ transplantation, expanding access and ...

The new study will attach the pig liver to up to 20 patients in a bid to give their own livers time to regenerate. View on ...

A US woman who lived with a pig kidney for 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors have announced. Towana Looney from Alabama is recovering ...

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

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

Scientists have been genetically modifying pigs to make their organs more human-like, - and therefore more compatible for human transplants.

WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting ...

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

An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.