(CNN) — A genetically engineered pig ... of pig kidney in the first human clinical trials to study xenotransplantation. The ...

He added, “Towana’s willingness to endeavor into the unknown to help ... The world’s first-ever recipient of a pig kidney transplant, Richard Slayman, died last May, two months after his ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First ... be transplanted within 24 to 36 hours, the kidney going into the pig ...

For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement.

WASHINGTON – Doctors have had to remove the pig ... kidneys might prove a usable source amid a chronic shortage of available human kidneys. Her body’s eventual rejection of the transplant ...

In 2016, Looney was added to the kidney transplant list following her pregnancy which forced her only kidney into overdrive ... t receive a human kidney. Instead, a pig’s kidney would be ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney ... animal kidneys might prove a usable source amid a chronic shortage of available human kidneys. Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed ...

Towana Looney, 53, had the transplanted ... Pig organs are being studied as a possible answer to the shortage of donated human organs. Right now, more than 550,000 people in the U.S. have kidney ...

Pigs are an interesting option for liver transplants as their organs have a similar size and physiological function to the human ... first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into ...

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