On 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.

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 ...

In a landmark case for xenotransplantation, 53-year-old Towana Looney from Alabama had a genetically modified pig kidney removed on April 4, 2025, after it ceased functioning following 130 days of ...

Pig kidney removed from Alabama woman a record 130 days after transplant - Xenotransplantation is experimental but has the promise of increasing organ supply ...

Nearly a year after performing the first transplant of a pig kidney into a living human recipient, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, reported that a second patient is doing well after ...

a patient who received a kidney transplant died from rabies. The screening process for potential organ donors in the U.S. includes questions about changes in donors’ mental states and testing for ...

a patient who received a kidney transplant died from rabies. The screening process for potential organ donors in the U.S. includes questions about changes in donors’ mental states and testing ...

In 2013, a kidney transplant patient died after getting an organ from a donor who later was found to have died of rabies in Florida. In 2004, three people also died after receiving organs from a ...

“At least, that was his last gift to the world, in death,” said Mashita, who continues the satay business she and her husband - who died at ... this year, kidney transplant patients make ...