The team learned that pig organs were being rejected due to an immune system reaction from specific antibodies -- which ...

At an international conference, researchers at the forefront of animal-human transplantation compared notes and allowed ...

The successful treatment in a brain-dead man could be used in living people, to prevent the immune system attacking donor ...

A man in Massachusetts just became the first person to receive a pig kidney transplant. In this latest medical milestone, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a ...

A pig kidney has continued to function inside of a human body for roughly two months, the longest documented instance of such a procedure, known as a xenotransplant. Researchers at NYU Langone ...

Researchers have uncovered and then overcome an obstacle that has led to the failure of pioneering efforts in ...

The scramble to find kidneys for transplants or the long waits on a list amid a usable organ shortage could come to an end in the future. The use of gene-edited pig kidneys could vastly increase ...

Xenotransplantation is the fusion energy of medicine. As the well-worn joke goes, it is the future—and always will be. But ...

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A Boston hospital announced Thursday that its doctors transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a human patient — marking the first time such a feat has been accomplished. If the procedure ...