On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

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

FDA approves first human trial to transplant pig livers, offering hope for patients with severe liver failure.

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

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

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 ...

“We demonstrated that gut metabolites impact the brain, and the brain, in turn, affects behavior,” study author Lisa ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

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

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

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months ...