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

In a first step toward FDA approval of kidney xenotransplantation, a living human with end-stage kidney disease may receive a ...

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

Scientists tracked how human immune cells attack pig kidneys after transplant—and found a way to fight back using precision ...

And it could not be better timed—the first US-based clinical trials of pig kidney transplantation into living humans begin ...

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.

BOSTON (WCVB) — Tim Andrews, one of four people to ever get a pig kidney transplant, was on an operating table five months ago. But on Wednesday night, he threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park.

Lai’s team has previously grown early-stage human kidneys in pig embryos that survived for up to a month in pregnant sows. He wanted to see whether similar results were possible for the heart.

Xenografts use genetically modified pig organs to address the critical shortage of human donors. Research into cellular memory is urgently needed before xenotransplantation becomes widespread.

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