At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

Thousands of patients on the list die each year, and thousands more come off the list because their health has worsened to ...

Renowned surgeon and humanitarian Dr. Robert Montgomery has revolutionized organ transplantation, expanding access and ...

The incredibly rare type of surgery has been performed fewer than 80 times in the last two decades in the country. Cestoni ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

In 2020, Luis Martinez received an unexpected and devastating diagnosis of stage four kidney failure — the result of ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable ...

The transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a human patient is a groundbreaking achievement in the field of xenotransplantation, which aims to address the critical shortage of human donor ...