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

A Bellingham woman is celebrating 50 years since she underwent a kidney transplant in 1975, which was a relatively new ...

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

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

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

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

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

The incredibly rare type of surgery has been performed fewer than 80 times in the last two decades in the country. Cestoni ...

The dialysis treatment also contributed to a heart attack that Andrews suffered in July 2023 while awaiting an eventual transplant procedure. Patients needing kidney transplants normally wait ...

becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig while alive. She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant Institute, staying at an apartment near ...

In 2020, Luis Martinez received an unexpected and devastating diagnosis of stage four kidney failure — the result of ...