Dehydration is a major cause of illness in cats and affects millions of them each year. To address this issue, Petcube, a pet ...

People worried they'll never get a scarce human transplant asked: When could we get a pig kidney? Alex Berrios of Louisville, ...

From a pig kidney transplant to restoring genetic deafness, 2024 was a year full of medical breakthroughs. The breakthroughs include the discovery of a cause of an autoimmune disease, the ...

VanderPoel told News 8 that her kidney failure was caused by lupus, an autoimmune disease diagnosed when she was 13. She’s had a transplant before; in 2009, her aunt gave her a kidney that ...

A Gadsden, Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. “It’s like a ...

Now, the 53-year-old from Alabama has become the latest recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney — and is currently the only living person in the world with an animal organ transplant, New York’s NYU ...

Pigs pose a particular risk of incubating new viruses, but cats, too, pose a similar risk because of their proximity to humans, as per a new study. Now, scientists are warning that domestic cats ...

ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty An Alabama woman "is recuperating well" after undergoing a pig kidney transplant in New York City, per reports. Towana Looney, 53, underwent surgery using the organ from ...

Towana Looney became the first living recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney transplant ... a particular risk of incubating new viruses, but cats, too, pose a similar risk because of their ...