For decades, scientists and surgeons around the world have been trying to solve the organ donor crisis. The answer could be ...

A team led by Children's Hospital Los Angeles has become the first in the world to demonstrate the possibility of using ...

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

PANJWANI: In January 2022, a man named David Bennett became the first person to receive a pig heart transplant. NEERGAARD: And Dr. Bartley Griffith, who was the surgeon involved here, told us how ...

“For the first time ... modified pig’s kidney from an Alabama woman after her body rejected the organ, NYU Langone Health reported. Towana Looney, 53, had the transplanted organ for 130 ...

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) FILE - Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of NYU Langone's transplant institute, prepares a pig kidney for transplant into a brain ... of animal to human transplants ...

A pig kidney was removed from ... is the longest a genetically modified pig kidney has lasted in a human This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April 15 ...

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 ...

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after ...