A New Hampshire man received a successful pig kidney transplant in June, a biotech company announced Monday.Bill Stewart, 54, received the kidney on June 14. He was discharged from Massachusetts ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale behind the NIH ban that human cells could make pigs too human rests on a ...

FILE - Surgeons at NYU Langone Health prepare to transplant a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man in New York on July 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum, File) (Shelby Lum ...

The latest record, 271 days, was set by a New Hampshire man transplanted at Massachusetts General Hospital; he is also back on dialysis after the pig organ began declining and was removed last month.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really save lives. United Therapeutics, a producer of gene-edited pig kidneys, ...