Dialysis must be used, or kidney transplantation is required, when the kidneys cannot filter blood any longer. The kidneys ...

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

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

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

An Alabama woman is back on dialysis after receiving a groundbreaking pig kidney transplant that her body later rejected. When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday ... and she was able to enjoy life without dialysis for the first time in nine years," Dr. Robert Montgomery of ...

Medics have advised kidney patients to go for transplant instead of dialysis, which is temporary, expensive and may result in more complications. There are about four million Kenyans suffering ...

Among patients on hemodialysis, those who developed gout were 6% less likely to be wait-listed for a kidney transplant than ...