Pig organs might help relieve the pressure. More than 100,000 Americans sit on organ transplant lists. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages Get the USA TODAY app ...

Additional edits to pig organs or progress in tolerance medicine might make long-term immunosuppression unnecessary. “You’ll ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The calls and emails started coming into NYU Langone Health and Massachusetts General Hospital soon after doctors began experimenting with pig organs in humans. People ...

Scientists tracked how human immune cells attack pig kidneys after transplant—and found a way to fight back using precision therapies in the early rejection phase.

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.

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

Some experts are concerned that, as things stand, the risks of pig-organ transplants may outweigh the benefits. "There's a lot of hope, but hope is not scientific evidence," L. Syd M Johnson, ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig ...

A pig kidney that had been removed from its host and frozen 10 days earlier, was thawed and prepared for a transplant experiment at Massachusetts General Hospital in March.

Using cutting-edge spatial molecular imaging, researchers mapped how human immune cells interact with pig kidney tissue in transplanted organs, revealing critical early markers of rejection and ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The calls and emails started coming into NYU Langone Health and Massachusetts General Hospital soon after doctors began experimenting with pig organs in humans. People worried ...