A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...

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

Thousands of patients on the list die each year, and thousands more come off the list because their health has worsened to ...

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

PANJWANI: I’m Haya Panjwani. On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauren Neergaard and Shelby Lum, ...

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 ...

Likewise, in 1936 Voronoy's first human-to-human kidney transplant was unsuccessful. A true appreciation for and understanding of rejection had not been realized. The development of dialysis ...

Dr. Seung Duk Lee, interim surgical director of liver transplant, performed the nation’s first fully robotic living donor ...

Looney has been receiving dialysis since 2016 and was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney, according ... had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April. He and her doctors ...

The achievement is the latest milestone in the field of xenotransplantation – organs and tissues harvested from animals for use in humans ... first transplant of a genetically modified pig ...

Scientists have created the world's first test-tube organs in a breakthrough ... techniques could offer a viable source of transplant tissue for humans. In the UK, an estimated 100,000 people ...