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A man in Massachusetts just became the first person to receive a pig kidney transplant. In this latest medical milestone, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a ...

(CNN) — A genetically engineered pig kidney has been removed from a transplant patient after it started losing function, according to a statement on Friday from NYU Langone Health. The patient, ...

Five vital organs are essential for life, but survival is more medically complex.

A pig kidney has continued to function inside of a human body for roughly two months, the longest documented instance of such a procedure, known as a xenotransplant. Researchers at NYU Langone ...

Surgeons perform the pig kidney transplant. The surgery took place last week, and the patient is recovering well and is expected to be discharged from the hospital soon. Massachusetts General Hospital ...

Across the United States, the brutal math of organ failure has barely budged for decades: demand keeps rising while supply stays painfully finite. Now a wave of 3D bioprinting breakthroughs is turning ...

A curious phenomenon has been reported among people who have undergone heart transplants. For some, they believe that they may have received more than just an organ in the exchange, as they report ...

For decades, scientists and surgeons around the world have been trying to solve the organ donor crisis. The answer could be rolling in the mud. At a farm and lab in the Midwest, biotechnology company ...

Researching are throwing lots of ideas at the wall to see what sticks, but the U.S. just put some serious cash behind the ...