A genetically engineered pig kidney is functioning well more than a month after being transplanted into the body of a man declared dead by neurologic criteria, doctors announced.

UAB President Ray Watts called the achievement an indicator of a possible future with a sustainable supply of organs. For the first time in a human, genetically modified pig kidneys provided ...

For over a month, a pig's kidney that was transplanted into a human body has worked normally — a step surgeons hope can one day lead to using this type of operation to save patients' lives. The ...

NEW YORK (WPIX) – Surgeons at New York University Langone Health have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a human body, and it continues to function well after more than a month ...

A pig kidney has continued to function inside of a human body for roughly two months, the longest documented instance of such a procedure.

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.

Pig kidneys transplanted into a human have worked to preserve life in a breakthrough case. The genetically modified kidneys were transplanted into a brain-dead patient and were found to function ...

Animal-to-human transplants could become a way to ease the nation’s organ shortage. About 89,000 people, the vast majority of people waiting for an organ transplant, need a kidney.

“If you put all the organs on a spectrum, the lung will always be the hardest to do,” said Dr. Leonardo Riella of ...