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 ...

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 ...

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

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 Park.

A Concord man who is the recipient of a pig kidney threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Red Sox game Wednesday night.

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