In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic ...
Animal-to-human organ transplants promise a future where survival no longer depends on another person’s death.
Scientists have reached a major milestone in animal-to-human transplant research as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first human clinical trials for kidney transplants from ...
Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work. The feat represents a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Monika Piotrowska, University at Albany, State University of New York (THE ...