And it could not be better timed—the first US-based clinical trials of pig kidney transplantation into living humans begin this year, 2025. One step closer to putting pig organs ...

In a breakthrough case, pig kidneys that had been genetically modified to reduce the risk of rejection worked just like human kidneys.

In a historic first, a kidney from a genetically modified pig was successfully transplanted into a human. Researchers hope for more of this kind of transplant because there aren’t enough human ...

A pig kidney has functioned in a human body for one month at NYU Langone, doctors announced Wednesday.

Massachusetts General Hospital performed the first successful transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney into a person in March.

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 ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

People worried they'll never get a scarce human transplant want to know when they might get a pig kidney instead.

Xenotransplantation, the use of pigs' organs, genetically altered to be more compatible with humans, could be an ethical way forward in transplant technology.

The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop alternatives to scarce human organs for transplantation, took place Nov. 25, 2024.

Genetically modified pig organs may be the answer to the shortage of human organs for those in dire need of a transplant.

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.