Dr. Marty Sellers, wearing a red scrub cap, and his team from Tennessee Donor Services perform a normothermic regional perfusion organ recovery at a hospital in eastern Tennessee. Jessica Tezak for NPR hide caption
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Dr. Jeffrey Stern, assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, prepare the gene-edited pig kidney with thymus for transplantation. Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health hide caption
A woman with failing kidneys receives genetically modified pig organs
A young, genetically modified pig raised at a Revivicor farm for organ transplantation research. Scott P. Yates for NPR hide caption
How genetically modified pigs could end the shortage of organs for transplants
Mayra Ramirez received a double lung transplant after COVID-19 caused irreversible damage to her lungs. Northwestern Medicine hide caption
'She Was So Sick': From COVID-19 Diagnosis To A Double Lung Transplant
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'She Was So Sick': From COVID-19 Diagnosis To A Double Lung Transplant
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick performs onstage during the Lung Transplant Project Gala in October 2017 in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Lung Transplant hide caption
Opinion: Remembering A Soprano With The 'Warmth And Strength Of The Sun'
The presence of the hepatitis C virus in donated hearts and organs for transplantation wasn't an impediment for a successful result for recipients. Kateryna Kon/Getty Images hide caption
The Johns Hopkins surgical team (left to right) Richard Redett, Trinity Bivalacqua, Brandacher Gerald, Arthur "Bud" Burnett and Andrew Lee. Johns Hopkins Medicine hide caption
In this 1989 photograph, Thomas Starzl oversees a liver transplant operation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Starzl won a National Medal of Science in 2004. Gene J. Puskar/AP hide caption
Cyclosporine is one of the drugs that organ transplant patients take so the body won't reject the organ. Brendan Gates/Flickr hide caption
Medicare Pays For A Kidney Transplant, But Not The Drugs To Keep It Viable
Debbie Deagle holds a photo of her son Stephen and herself. Martha Bebinger/WBUR hide caption
Dr. Dorry Segev (right), of Johns Hopkins Medicine, led the team of doctors that transplanted an HIV-positive liver and kidney into two different HIV-positive patients this month. Johns Hopkins Medicine hide caption
New Source Of Transplant Organs For Patients With HIV: Others With HIV
Doctors sew a kidney into a recipient patient during a kidney transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2012 in Baltimore, Md. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
An economist has ideas for making the market for organ donations more efficient. iStockphoto hide caption
Relatives of deceased organ donors mourn for them at a ceremony unveiling a monument for the organ donors in April in Chongqing, China. Feature China/ Barcroft Media/Barcroft Media/Landov hide caption
Now Dr. Majilla Doyle's organ donors come to her. Robert J. Boston/Washington University School Of Medicine hide caption
Does it matter where it comes from if it helps you out? iStockphoto.com hide caption
A surgical team with Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, performs the first mother-to-daughter uterine transplant. Johan Wingborg/University of Gothenburg hide caption
Swedes Perform Pioneering Uterine Transplants; Americans Not Far Behind
Amber Cooper lives in Modesto, Calif., with her 5-year-old son, Jaden, and her husband, Kevin. She had a liver transplant when she was 10 years old and has to take anti-rejection medication. Deanne Fitzmaurice for NPR hide caption
All in the family: Nino Giarratano (left), the head baseball coach at the University of San Francisco, joins hands with his father, Mickey Giarratano, after the transplant of a kidney from son to father at Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver last year. AP/Courtesy Giarratano Family hide caption