Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

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

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

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 ...

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

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

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

Instead, he opted to undergo a transplant using the bio-engineered porcine kidney on Jan. 25 and was released from the hospital on Feb. 1. "As soon as I woke up after the surgery, the cloud of ...

This occurs even as a significant number of offered kidneys, currently exceeding 25%, are declined for transplantation ... Schold, Departments of Surgery and Epidemiology, University of Colorado ...