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

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

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

Bronco, the pig, saw his human resting on the couch and decided to join them. He loved being close to his humans and wanted ...

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.

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

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

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

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 ...

The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop alternatives to scarce human organs for transplantation, took ...

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

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development.