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

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

Doctors removed the kidney on April 4. Looney expressed gratitude for the research opportunity. Pig organs offer a potential solution to the human ... the first man to receive a kidney transplant ...

It’s the longest a human has ... animal organs into humans. Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late ...

The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop alternatives to scarce human ... kidney functioned well for over four months, and she was able to enjoy life without dialysis for the ...

had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the genetically modified organ, according to NYU Langone Health in New York. The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop ...