Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Towana Looney is brought into the operating room for her xenotransplant surgery at NYU Langone Health in New York City on November ...

DIAGNOSED WITH END STAGE KIDNEY DISEASE. MOST PATIENTS WAITING FOR A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT HAVE TO WAIT UP TO FIVE YEARS TO GET ONE. FOR TIM ANDREWS. IT MIGHT HAVE TAKEN EVEN LONGER, AND I KNEW THAT ...

A 53-year-old clinically dead man has become the first person to receive two kidneys and a whole liver from a genetically ...

DIAGNOSED WITH END STAGE KIDNEY DISEASE. MOST PATIENTS WAITING FOR A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT HAVE TO WAIT UP TO FIVE YEARS TO GET ONE. FOR TIM ANDREWS. IT MIGHT HAVE TAKEN EVEN LONGER, AND I KNEW THAT ...

With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited pig organs can bridge the gap. Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital ...

For 66-year-old Tim Andrews, it was a matter of life or death. Andrews had spent the better part of two years on dialysis because of end-stage kidney disease. He was on the transplant wait list for a ...

NEWSCENTER 5. ALL RIGHT, SARA, THANK YOU. FOR THE SECOND TIME, MASS GENERAL HAS TRANSPLANTED A KIDNEY FROM A PIG TO A PERSON. IT’S JUST THE FOURTH TIME THIS PROCEDURE HAS BEEN DONE ANYWHERE IN THE ...

A genetically modified pig kidney has survived and functioned in a human recipient for 61 days, setting a record for this type of procedure and offering new hope to the nearly one million Americans ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig into ...

Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney, is headed back home to Alabama. "I feel blessed," ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig organ, ...