In a world first, surgeons in Boston have transplanted a genetically altered pig kidney into a 62-year-old man. The procedure is a step toward providing more readily available organs to patients who ...

A recent scientific breakthrough has seen lab-grown kidneys successfully functioning in a human trial. This promising development has far-reaching implications for organ transplant procedures and the ...

The 62-year-old man had diabetes, hypertension and previously underwent kidney surgery Credit: Massachusetts General Hospital Surgeons in Massachusetts have become the first to complete a ...

A research team led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and collaborating with the Biomedical Research Institute of A Coruña (INIBIC), as well as other international research ...

A pioneering technology has been developed that enables human kidney organoids to be produced in a scalable manner by allowing the organoids to be combined with ex vivo pig kidneys and then ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Two different gene-edited pig kidneys have been successfully transplanted into living human patients under FDA’s ...

ENG: Confocal microscopy image of a kidney organoid on day 16 of differentiation. The cells have been labelled different colours using immunofluorescence to identify specific components: LTL (green: ...