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 ...

Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University scientists develop a 3D 34-week human kidney; the study could lead to better ...

Richard Slayman, the first person to ever receive a kidney from a pig, has died, according to Massachusetts General Hospital, where the transplant was performed in March. In a statement late ...

STORY: "It was truly the most beautiful kidney I have ever seen."Transplant surgeon Dr Tatsuo Kawai and his team are hailing what they call a major breakthrough, after what they say is the first ...

For over a month, a pig's kidney that was transplanted into a human body has worked normally — a step surgeons hope can one day lead to using this type of operation to save patients' lives.

Massachusetts General was the site of the first human-to-human organ transplant, in 1954, when an identical twin donated his kidney to his brother. Dr.

Kidneys that are more than 50 per cent human have started to grow in pigs for the first time after scientists created embryos made of human and pig cells and implanted them in sows for up to four ...

It's the longest that a gene-edited pig kidney has survived and functioned in a human, said Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute.

For the first time, scientists have successfully grown functioning human kidney tissue in the lab that is able to produce urine. The kidney tissue, generated from human stem cells, was implanted ...

Dr. Locke said that she had taken care to make sure that the experimental kidney operation at U.A.B. closely mirrored a standard allotransplantation, or human-to-human transplant.

Scientists have tried for years to grow artificial kidneys in the lab. They've gotten a bit closer by using stem cells to create an "organoid" much like a fetal kidney. But it's missing key parts.