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

Recipients of kidney transplants in high heat index settings show higher rates of adverse kidney outcomes than transplant ...

Kenya’s first kidney transplant was performed in 1978. In 1984, the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi’s largest public ...

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

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

Utah GM Justin Zanik recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of his kidney transplant and is back with the Jazz ...

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

"It's like a second opportunity at life, to do things better than before," transplant recipient Sergio Arias Cestoni told Newsday.

The transplant is part of a multi-patient study and the first done on three patients who were diagnosed with kidney failure and listed as needing a transplant, eGenesis officials said in an online ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover ...

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.