In a scientific “first,” a tiny heart structure composed of human cells has been successfully grown within a pig embryo. Interestingly, this heart kept beating on its own for an impressive 21 days.

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

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 team of scientists from France and the United States has taken an important step toward understanding how the human body ...

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

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But whether or not they realize it, many thousands of clones have already been produced as the cloning process has become ...

In the test in March, the kidney had remained frozen for 10 days and was to be transplanted back into the pig from which it had been taken. At 3 a.m. the team started thawing the kidney, a process ...

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 ...

Last March, surgeons at Mass General performed the first-ever pig kidney transplant in a living human, 62-year-old Richard Slayman of Weymouth. Slayman’s recovery began well, but he died of ...

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Towana Looney, who received a pig kidney transplant in November 2024, goes over notes about her recovery with Dr. Jeffrey Stern at NYU Langone Health in New York. She has lived for 61 days with ...