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

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

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

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

They decided to work with recently removed but still live ... transplant surgeons at Mass General, opened the pig’s abdomen and prepared the animal for the surgery. At 10:30, they sewed the ...

Otway Mayfield and Tywa Hughes reconnect after 30 years for a life-saving kidney transplant, while also overcoming cancer ...

Vicki Haggen is one of the world’s longest-surviving kidney transplant patients after her sister donated one of her kidneys ...

"As soon as I woke up after the surgery ... a new lease on life." He said more than 500,000 people undergo dialysis in the United States and he hopes his bio-engineered kidney transplant ...

A local nonprofit website and organization is looking to help six people in the local area who recently joined the list on ...

After a 2023 diagnosis of chronic kidney failure, a Port Richmond man was desperate to find a donor. In late 2024, a family ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically ... gene-edited pig kidney for Ms. Looney’s surgery, plans to begin a clinical trial of pig-kidney transplantation this year.