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

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

More than 16,000 people in Arizona are currently living with kidney failure, according to the American Kidney Fund. But getting a kidney transplant ... me for the surgery, I was so ready." ...

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 ...

(CNN) — A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig ...

Towana Looney's transplanted pig kidney was removed after 130 ... Americans are currently waiting on organ transplant lists, hoping for a living person to donate one of their kidneys or for ...

Newkirk, who had been a student at DeKalb High School in Auburn when Hawkins was coaching and teaching there, offered to be a living kidney ... through surgery to complete the transplant.

Dr. Seung Duk Lee, interim surgical director of liver transplant, performed the nation’s first fully robotic living donor liver transplant.