Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them.

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 ...

A new study reversed transplant rejection twice, uncovering the reasons for transplant rejection on a cellular level ...

Researchers on Thursday reported the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs. This time around, surgeons in Alabama ...

NEW YORK (StudyFinds.org) – With organ donors always in short supply, an ongoing study has identified a possible alternative — animal organs. Researchers from New York University Langone Health say ...

A recent study achieved a landmark breakthrough in pig-to-human kidney xenotransplantation by studying the immune system's rejection response up close. Dr. Valentin Goutaudier and his team from the ...

A recent scientific breakthrough has seen lab-grown kidneys successfully functioning in a human trial. This promising development has far-reaching implications for organ transplant procedures and the ...

NEW YORK – In an experimental procedure, a genetically modified pig kidney successfully functioned in a human body for about two months, the longest documented case of its kind. Researchers at NYU ...

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Pigs have ...