Chinese scientists have, for the first time, cultivated a beating heart structure with human cells in a pig embryo, reporting ...

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.

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Scientists have achieved an unprecedented look into how the human immune system attacks a transplanted pig kidney, using spatial molecular imaging to map immune activity down to the cellular level.

A pioneering study has provided unprecedented insights into the immune response following pig-to-human kidney xenotransplantation. The findings, presented today at the ESOT Congress 2025, mark a ...

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.

BOSTON (WCVB) — Tim Andrews, one of four people to ever get a pig kidney transplant, was on an operating table five months ago. But on Wednesday night, he threw out the first pitch at Fenway ...

Wednesday marked 137 days with his new kidney. Andrews is the longest-living recipient of a genetically edited pig organ and the only person in the United States with a pig kidney. To honor his ...