A New Hampshire man who became one of the first people in the world to receive a genetically modified pig kidney is home ...

The death of a Weymouth man two months after undergoing what his doctors at Mass General Hospital described as the first successful pig-to-human kidney transplant was caused by "an unexpected cardiac ...

Season 13 Episode 14 of Grey’s Anatomy starts on Alex’s first day back to work where he’s tasked with a kidney transplant from a mother to her son. Jo and Stephanie are his interns. A seemingly ...

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 ...

Learn more about UAB's Xenotransplant program here. “It has been truly extraordinary to see the first-ever preclinical demonstration that appropriately modified pig kidneys can provide normal, ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, scientists hooked up a genetically modified pig kidney to a human patient and watched as the organ successfully filtered waste from the person's body. The experiment ...

Surgeons at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have, for the first time, successfully transplanted kidneys from a genetically altered pig into a human. The patient was a 57-year-old brain-dead ...

A team of scientists has conducted a comprehensive analysis reconstructing how kidneys form their filtering units, known as nephrons. The team studied hundreds of human and mouse nephrons at various ...