In a first step toward FDA approval of kidney xenotransplantation, a living human with end-stage kidney disease may receive a pig organ as soon as this summer as part of a clinical trial program ...

Life’s a lot better when you stay curious and open-minded about the world. That’s easier said than done, however. Adult ...

A pioneering study has provided unprecedented insights into the immune response following pig-to-human kidney xenotransplantation. The findings, presented today at the ESOT Congress 2025, mark a ...

A pioneering study has provided unprecedented insights into the immune response following pig-to-human kidney ...

Scientists have achieved an unprecedented look into how the human immune system attacks a transplanted pig kidney, using ...

And it could not be better timed—the first US-based clinical trials of pig kidney transplantation into living humans begin this year, 2025. One step closer to putting pig organs ...

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.

But there's a problem, and a big one at that: The body naturally wants to reject any tissue it knows it didn't manufacture.

Lucy the pygmy pig’s owner, Lori Anne Gannone, got the call Monday morning that Hizzoner declared Lucy would get to live out ...