A new clinical trial will soon test if a pig liver can help people whose own livers have suddenly stopped working.

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

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

The FDA has cleared the first clinical trial to test genetically engineered pig livers in patients who have acute-on-chronic liver failure. The trial will evaluate the use of a Egenesis porcine liver ...

The new study will attach the pig liver to up to 20 patients in a bid to give their own livers time to regenerate. View on ...

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

US researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body.

Scientists have been genetically modifying pigs to make their organs more human-like, - and therefore more compatible for human transplants.

David R. Walt, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, lost hundreds of thousands in research funding from the Trump administration last week — just two months ...

WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday — a ...

An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...