In a scientific “first,” a tiny heart structure composed of human cells has been successfully grown within a pig embryo.

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.

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.

Solid organ transplantation provides life-saving and life-enhancing treatments for patients with end-stage organ failure.1,2 ...

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

Looney's relative success could lead to more procedures for alternative organ transplants. An Alabama woman is back on dialysis after receiving a groundbreaking pig kidney transplant that her body ...

Melissa Mattola-Kiatos removes the pig kidney from its box to prepare for transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Boston.

Local News NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after MGH transplant The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for ...

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.

Locke has been involved in the transplant and care of 53-year-old Towana Looney, who received a pig kidney from United Therapeutics in November at NYU Langone’s Transplant Institute.

MGH performs its second, world’s fourth genetically altered pig kidney transplant By Emily Spatz Globe Correspondent,Updated February 7, 2025, 2:49 p.m.