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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Looney had been on dialysis since 2016 and didn’t qualify for a regular transplant – her body was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney. So she sought out a pig kidney and it functioned ...

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 ...