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

Renowned surgeon and humanitarian Dr. Robert Montgomery has revolutionized organ transplantation, expanding access and ...

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

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

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

In a landmark case for xenotransplantation, 53-year-old Towana Looney from Alabama had a genetically modified pig kidney ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment in the ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

Doctors were unable to find a compatible human donor, and the patient was ultimately cleared to receive a genetically ...