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

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

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

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

Behind the Story of the Decades-Long Journey of Xenotransplantation WASHINGTON (AP) — On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have ...

Haya Panjwani, Associated Press: That's why scientists are turning to a procedure known as xenotransplantation. Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press: A fancy word to say animal to human organ ...