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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 ...

The patient was in kidney failure and her immune system would reject a human organ. Scientists hope genetically modified pig organs prove safe and will alleviate the organ shortage and save lives.

Doctors gave Andrews a 9% chance of undergoing an eventual kidney transplant but a 49% chance of dying while awaiting the procedure. Instead, he opted to undergo a transplant using the bio ...

Should kidney donors be paid? A proposed law, the End Kidney Deaths Act, would give living kidney donors a $50,000 tax break. But there are ethical concerns.

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for ...

More than 90,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a kidney transplant. But a kidney shortage means many die on the waitlist or become too sick for a transplant. A new plan would compensate donors.

Towana Looney, a 53-year-old Alabama woman, is now free from years of dialysis after receiving an experimental pig kidney transplant last month. Latest U.S.

In the test in March, the kidney had remained frozen for 10 days and was to be transplanted back into the pig from which it had been taken. At 3 a.m. the team started thawing the kidney, ...