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

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

As science progresses, xenotransplantation could become a life-saving alternative for patients ... pig kidney died due to heart attack Rick Slayman was the first man to receive a kidney transplant ...

Renowned surgeon and humanitarian Dr. Robert Montgomery has revolutionized organ transplantation, expanding access and ...

5 The fact that transplant patients are on average in their 50s ... the second-ever transplant of a genetically modified pig heart into a human, using a novel immunosuppression regimen of an ...

Researchers in China have carried out the first transplant of a pig liver, genetically modified to prevent immune rejection, into a brain-dead human patient ... reported heart and kidney ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant ... hope since the pig kidney did its blood-filtering work for 130 days before the body began rejecting it. Advt A handful of patients had ...