Doctors say they’ve removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman after she lived with the organ for a record 130 days. Towana Looney has returned home to Gadsden after undergoing surgery a week ...

(G) Representative images (left) of hematoxylin/eosin-, Sirius red-, and TUNEL-stained kidney sections of Slc3a1 KO and WT mice from both sexes and their quantification (right). Scale bar, 100 μm.

Pig kidney was genetically edited to lower risk to human immune systems The pig organs used for transplant come from animals that are gene-edited to make their organs less likely to be rejected by ...

Richard Slayman, the first successful recipient of a pig-to-human kidney transplant, died in May from heart complications unrelated to the procedure, according to Massachusetts General Hospital ...

Surgeons perform the world’s first genetically modified pig kidney transplant into a living human at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Doctors in Boston performed the first pig kidney transplant in a living patient.

This is the first time a pig kidney has been transplanted into a living human, which makes it a significant milestone in the field of xenotransplantation, or the transfer of animal organs to humans.

A 62-year-man with end-stage renal disease has become the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig, doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced on ...

Revivicor’s Roanoke County facility, and one under construction in Montgomery County, are set to supply hearts and organs from pigs for human transplantation.

Presenters at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2023 highlighted the exciting new technologies that nephrology research has developed to improve patient outcomes, quality of ...