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

Genesis has gained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance on an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for a ...

A US woman who lived with a pig kidney for 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors have announced. Towana Looney from Alabama is recovering ...

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 ...

Researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by ...

Scientists have been genetically modifying pigs to make their organs more human-like, - and therefore more compatible for human transplants.

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...