Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to ...

The story of transplants has always been one of altruism. After all, organs can be neither sold nor purchased. They can only ...

The pig liver began producing bile two hours after the transplant ... “The heart functions as a pump to pump blood to the whole human body, and the major function of the kidney is to produce ...

A very different kind of "hog farm" is being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited pigs in a $110 million pathogen-free facility to harvest kidneys and ...

For decades, scientists and surgeons around the world have been trying to solve the organ donor crisis. The answer could be rolling in the mud.

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had to see if their method would work in a pig. By Gina Kolata On the ...

(CNN) — Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig ... heart just functions as a heart to pump the blood. The major function of the ...

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after ...

WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a ... was reactivating after the transplant. Those factors may have combined to damage the new kidney, he said.