PANJWANI: I’m Haya Panjwani. On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauren Neergaard and Shelby Lum, ...

Massachusetts-based researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver ...

Have you indicated on your driver’s license that you want to be an organ donor? If not, you should. As of 2022, 1 million people had received at least one organ transplant, and in 2024 alone ...

Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living recipient in January 2025.

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 ...

Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use of animal organs remains ... a compatible human ...

Without a donor match, she would die – but the complications she ... The US Food and Drug Administration allows doctors to ...

In a landmark case for xenotransplantation, 53-year-old Towana Looney from Alabama had a genetically modified pig kidney removed on April 4, 2025, after it ceased functioning following 130 days of ...

There are critical shortages in donor organs available for transplantation in the ... Before Looney’s transplant, only four ...

The good news is that one person has the power to save up to eight lives through organ donation and heal 125 more through tissue donation. Life Connection of Ohio is a non-profit organization that ...

The medical director of the living donor program at UPMC says the need for organ donations is critical. "For liver transplants, approximately 10,000 people are waiting on the wait list.

It was seven years ago when the Humboldt Bronco’s bus crash stunned the nation, but out of the tragedy came a movement that changed the way people view organ donation. Logan Boulet was one of 16 ...