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.

Months after it was purchased by VCU Health, an old milk-processing plant near the Diamond is coming down to make way for a ...

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

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

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 ...

One of the most striking discoveries was that human immune cells were found in every part of the pig kidney's filtering system after the transplant. Researchers observed early molecular signs of ...

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

After signing up to be a donor in 2017, Mya Linklater was excited to learn that she had the opportunity to save a young child ...

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

For the first time, researchers in China have developed hearts containing human cells inside pig embryos.

What if organ transplants effect more than just biological function? Research suggests transplanted pig organs could carry animal memories to human recipients.

In 2013, Bennett had heart surgery to implant a pig valve in his heart. That procedure, done for decades, is not considered an organ transplant because it does not involve a full organ and because ...