Lai’s team has previously grown early-stage human kidneys in pig embryos that survived for up to a month in pregnant sows. He wanted to see whether similar results were possible for the heart.

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

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

Scientists tracked how human immune cells attack pig kidneys after transplant—and found a way to fight back using precision ...

Results of Two Cases of Pig-to-Human Kidney Xenotransplantation. N Engl J Med. 2022 May 19;386 (20):1889-1898. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2120238. PMID: 35584156.

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

But there's a problem, and a big one at that: The body naturally wants to reject any tissue it knows it didn't manufacture.

A pioneering study has provided unprecedented insights into the immune response following pig-to-human kidney xenotransplantation. The findings, presented today at the ESOT Congress 2025, mark a ...

BOSTON (WCVB) — Tim Andrews, one of four people to ever get a pig kidney transplant, was on an operating table five months ago. But on Wednesday night, he threw out the first pitch at Fenway ...

With xenotransplantation -- animal-to-human transplantation -- poised to address the global organ shortage crisis, a ...