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

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

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable human organs. More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list, most ...

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

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

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

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

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

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 had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...