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

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it ...

When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a groundbreaking medical feat for alternative organ ...

The death of a Weymouth man two months after undergoing what his doctors at Mass General Hospital described as the first successful pig-to-human kidney transplant was caused by "an unexpected ...

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

had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the genetically modified organ, according to NYU Langone Health in New York. The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop ...

One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs for transplantation. More than 100,000 people in the US are waiting for a ...

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

Mediheal Group of Hospitals has claimed its kidney transplant success rate stands at 98 per cent as it dismissed allegations ...

The human immune system immediately recognizes ... So once you’re in the operating room, it’s pretty similar to a regular kidney transplant surgery. You have the surgeon who’s starting ...

When she heard about the option to try a pig kidney transplantation, she jumped at the chance to try it. “Without a pathway to receiving a human kidney, she decided a gene-edited pig kidney was ...