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

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

Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...

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 ...

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

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

When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a groundbreaking medical feat for alternative organ ...

The decision to remove the pig kidney was taken jointly by Looney and her doctors, in order to preserve "future possibilities ...

So once you’re in the operating room, it’s pretty similar to a regular kidney transplant surgery. You have the surgeon who’s starting the surgery and then surgeons go to the farm and they ...

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 ...