Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to ...

The story of transplants has always been one of altruism. After all, organs can be neither sold nor purchased. They can only ...

For decades, scientists and surgeons around the world have been trying to solve the organ donor crisis. The answer could be rolling in the mud.

The pig liver began producing bile two hours after the transplant ... “The heart functions as a pump to pump blood to the whole human body, and the major function of the kidney is to produce ...

A very different kind of “hog farm” being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had to see if their method would work in a pig. By Gina Kolata On the ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

(CNN) — Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig ... heart just functions as a heart to pump the blood. The major function of the ...

WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a ... was reactivating after the transplant. Those factors may have combined to damage the new kidney, he said.

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after ...