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

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

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

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

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

Following a heart transplant, patients must undergo surgical biopsies so that clinicians can monitor for signs of organ rejection. A new study shows the promise of a biomarker that could allow doctors ...

Surgeons have performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S., using advanced robotic tools to avoid opening ...

The patient, a 45-year-old man hospitalized for months with severe heart failure, became the first in the United States to ...

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.

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

A new state-run immigration detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” is set to open Tuesday in the Everglades.