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

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However, her immune system rejected the organ. Doctors removed the kidney on April ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

Northwell, which cares for about 50% of the state’s pediatric patients, has been planning to add a pediatric heart transplant program as the sixth to this list for years, according to Kleinmahon.

Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

In contrast to the kidney or the heart, the function of the liver ... a crucial temporary solution for liver failure patients The pig liver transplant entailed massive gene modification to ensure ...

An investigation confirmed the patient contracted rabies through the organ. A Michigan resident has died of rabies after apparently undergoing an organ transplant, health officials said.

conducted the transplant, retaining the recipient’s own liver to simulate support therapy for patients with clinical liver failure. “We observed that the transplanted gene-edited pig liver can ...

FILE - This undated electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows rabies virions, dark and bullet-shaped, within an infected tissue sample. (F. A ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant ... A Chinese patient is the third person in world ...

Nearly three weeks after the kidney transplant, the patient is doing remarkably well, and the pig kidney is functioning optimally, he confirmed. But Wang pointed to a potential next step in ...

A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant, health officials said. The patient had the organ transplanted at a hospital in Ohio in December and ...