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

Key Takeaways A new trial will beging testing pig livers to support people with sudden liver failureThe pig liver won't be ...

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

The new study will attach the pig liver to up to 20 patients in a bid to give their own livers time to regenerate. View on ...

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

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

WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting ...

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

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

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

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

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