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

WASHINGTON — On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or ...

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

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 ...

She lived with a pig kidney longer than any other human in history ... The world’s first-ever recipient of a pig kidney transplant, Richard Slayman, died last May, two months after his surgery.

The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop alternatives to scarce human organs ... engineered pig kidney functioned well for over four months, and she was able to enjoy life without ...