Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing ...

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

But a New Hampshire man who is now living with a pig kidney is giving some researchers hope there's a temporary solution. "Immediately following the transplant, it just changed his life," Mike ...

Scientists continue to explore ways to improve organ functionality and prevent immune system rejection. If successful, pig ...

At least four live pig-kidney-to-human transplants have been reported to date, all in the United States. The patient who underwent the transplant last November is the longest-surviving recipient ...

In March 2024, Riella’s team at MGH announced the world’s first successful transplantation of a genetically edited pig kidney 4. Richard Slater, a 62-year-old man with end-stage kidney disease ...

MGH nephrologist Leonardo Riella and surgeon Tatsuo Kawai talk with reporters about Massachusetts General Hospital's second transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living human recipient.

Such findings helped later transplants go better; an Alabama woman, who received a pig kidney at the New York University Langone Transplant Institute in November 2024, was cleared to head home ...

The national kidney transplant list gives patients an opportunity to receive ... hoisted there via pulley by the ship’s chef. Scientists hope that pig-to-human organ transplantation could someday save ...

The Excellence in Kidney Transplantation Award recognizes scientists ... performing a 10 gene-edited pig-to-human kidney xenotransplant. Her patient is the longest living recipient with a ...

which performed the world's first successful gene-edited pig-to-brain-dead recipient xenogeneic orthotropic whole liver transplant on Jan 7. The kidney, sourced from Clonorgan Biotechnology Co in ...