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 ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable human organs. More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list, most ...

An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.

Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living recipient in January 2025.

When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a groundbreaking medical feat for alternative organ ...

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

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...

Two of them received hearts and the others received kidneys, but no transplant lasted longer than two months and patients who ...