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.

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 ...

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.

The first fully robotic heart transplant in the United States was performed at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston in March this year, according to an announcement by the hospital released ...

Lai’s team has previously grown early-stage human kidneys in pig embryos that survived for up to a month in pregnant sows. He wanted to see whether similar results were possible for the heart.