In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

A US woman who lived with a pig kidney for 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors have announced. Towana Looney from Alabama is recovering ...

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

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a ...

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

Scientists have been genetically modifying pigs to make their organs more human-like, - and therefore more compatible for human transplants.

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday — a disappointment in the ...

An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.

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

Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living ...