Germans in need of new kidneys are heading to Kenya to buy one. The donors are frequently suffering from bitter poverty. Behind the scheme is an Israeli whom the authorities have been after for years.

U.S. 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 ...

One of every three donated kidneys never gets transplanted. CBS News explores why a growing number are being discarded.

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