Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, thousands of these patients were moved up the list in ...

Because Looney had donated a kidney to her mother in 1999, she was at the top of the transplant list when she needed one herself about eight years ago. She waited and hoped for a human donor ...

The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.The ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...