In a first step toward FDA approval of kidney xenotransplantation, a living human with end-stage kidney disease may receive a ...

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A pioneering study has provided unprecedented insights into the immune response following pig-to-human kidney ...

Following a heart transplant, patients must undergo surgical biopsies so that clinicians can monitor for signs of organ rejection. A new study shows the promise of a biomarker that could allow doctors ...

Scientists have achieved an unprecedented look into how the human immune system attacks a transplanted pig kidney, using ...

Surgeons have performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S., using advanced robotic tools to avoid opening ...

And it could not be better timed—the first US-based clinical trials of pig kidney transplantation into living humans begin ...

The patient, a 45-year-old man hospitalized for months with severe heart failure, became the first in the United States to receive a heart transplant using a ...

One of the most striking discoveries was that human immune cells were found in every part of the pig kidney's filtering system after the transplant. Researchers observed early molecular signs of ...