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 ...

It can be unusual for a husband and wife to be a transplant match because several factors are required, including blood and ...

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

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

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 ...

She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant Institute ... Looney donated a kidney to help save her mother’s life in 1999 but later developed kidney failure after ...

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 ...

"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 ...