In a first step toward FDA approval of kidney xenotransplantation, a living human with end-stage kidney disease may receive a pig organ as soon as this summer as part of a clinical trial program ...

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 ...

A multisite research team has issued ethical and policy recommendations for first-in-human clinical trials involving the transplantation of pig ...

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

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

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.

Scientists tracked how human immune cells attack pig kidneys after transplant—and found a way to fight back using precision therapies in the early rejection phase.

And it could not be better timed—the first US-based clinical trials of pig kidney transplantation into living humans begin this year, 2025. One step closer to putting pig organs ...

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