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

Two men from Bilaspur, both in their early 40s and battling end-stage kidney disease, recently underwent a life-saving ...

Towana Looney, a pig kidney transplant recipient ... Towana Looney sits with transplant surgeon Dr. Jayme Locke on Dec. 10, 2024, at NYU Langone Health in New York. AP Shortly before the rejection ...

An act of compassion by a young man has ignited a chain reaction of kindness at Providence Swedish Hospital, resulting in ...

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

Covenant Health announced Monday the hospital is proud to once again bring critically necessary services back to West Texas ...

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

Covenant Health, with Texas Tech Physicians, are offering the only kidney transplant surgery program in the region. The first has already proven successful.

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4 ... NPR had exclusive access to ...

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

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 ...