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

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

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a ...

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

Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living ...

United Therapeutics Corporation, the biotech company that developed the modified pig kidney – known as a UKidney – celebrated ...

A 69-year-old woman in China has become the third individual globally to receive a gene-edited pig kidney transplant, marking a significant advancement in the field of xenotransplantation. The ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks after surgery, doctors say she's doing well. The woman, reportedly 69 years old ...

(WXYZ) — March is National Kidney Month, a time to highlight kidney disease and the efforts to prevent and manage it. More than 35 million Americans suffer from ...

But two additional pig kidney recipients so far are thriving ... But Wang pointed to a potential next step in xenotransplantation — learning to transplant pig livers. His team reported ...

Table 2. The list of clinical xenotransplantation cases. As of February 2025, the U.S. FDA has approved two clinical trials for genetically engineered pig kidney transplantation into humans. The first ...

The group from China has conducted liver xenotransplantation research for more than a decade. In 2013, they successfully performed the first pig-to-monkey heterotopic auxiliary liver ...