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

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

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

As science progresses, xenotransplantation could become a life-saving alternative for patients ... pig kidney died due to heart attack Rick Slayman was the first man to receive a kidney transplant ...

Researchers in China have carried out the first transplant of a pig liver, genetically modified to prevent immune rejection, into a brain-dead human patient ... reported heart and kidney ...

5 The fact that transplant patients are on average in their 50s ... the second-ever transplant of a genetically modified pig heart into a human, using a novel immunosuppression regimen of an ...

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.

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

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.