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

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

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.