And it could not be better timed—the first US-based clinical trials of pig kidney transplantation into living humans begin ...

Scientists tracked how human immune cells attack pig kidneys after transplant—and found a way to fight back using precision ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be ...

Scientists have achieved an unprecedented look into how the human immune system attacks a transplanted pig kidney, using spatial molecular imaging to map immune activity down to the cellular level.

A pioneering study has provided unprecedented insights into the immune response following pig-to-human kidney ...

Now two U.S. companies aim to begin the world’s first clinical trials of xenotransplantation in 2025 – using pig kidneys or hearts to try to save human lives.

Dr. Robert Montgomery, who himself received a human heart transplant in 2018, leads the operation to implant a new kind of modified pig kidney into a living patient for the first time.

Replacing a human organ with a pig’s is complicated, said Dr. Shimul Shah, an expert in xenotransplantation — the transplant of animal organs into humans — and division chief of abdominal ...

Recently, a woman who was dying of kidney failure received a pig kidney, and she seems to be doing well. From the NPR story : Looney donated one of her kidneys to her mother in 1999.

With xenotransplantation -- animal-to-human transplantation -- poised to address the global organ shortage crisis, a pionee ...

London, United Kingdom) A pioneering study has provided unprecedented insights into the immune response following pig-to-human ...

Replacing a human organ with a pig’s is complicated, said Dr. Shimul Shah, an expert in xenotransplantation — the transplant of animal organs into humans — and division chief of abdominal ...