The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really save lives. United ...

Researchers have made a major medical breakthrough after they created human kidney organoids and transplanted them into pigs.

A new scalable technique enables the generation of human kidney organoids by integrating them into perfused pig kidneys.

A research team led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and collaborating with the Biomedical Research ...

Once I’ve finished the marathon, gotten my medal, it gives me two or three months of just that runner’s high,” Liz Healy told ...

Standard techniques for removing kidney stones often require repeated surgery, but a magnetic gel seems to make the process ...

Tim Andrews was the fourth patient in the United States to receive a pig kidney transplant. He will now return to dialysis ...

A patient with kidney failure who received a pig kidney transplant has maintained normal kidney function for 9 months (271 days), marking the longest duration ever recorded in pig organ ...

On one hand, there's the promise of technological advancement potentially saving lives; on the other, there’s a call for caution about the moral ramifications of such procedures. As we embrace this ...

A New Hampshire man lived with a pig kidney for a record 271 days before surgeons removed it last week as the organ's ...

A Concord man who was the second person in the country to receive a pig kidney transplant said he's not giving up after he ...