Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital on Thursday said they have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a human living with kidney disease, the first such procedure in the world. The ...

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There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale ...

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Chronic kidney disease can quietly reshape a life long before the first lab test comes back abnormal. More than 700 million ...

GOOD AFTERNOON. BOSTON WAS ALREADY HOME TO THE WORLD’S FIRST EVER HUMAN TO HUMAN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT, PERFORMED AT THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S BACK IN 1954. NOW, MASS GENERAL HAS MADE HISTORY WITH THIS ...

Despite how it sounds, a xenotransplant isn't something from the latest Alien movie. It's an increasingly credible science: the transplantation of animal organs into humans. The field took one of its ...

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 ...

The first person to receive a pig kidney transplant has died just two months after he underwent the groundbreaking procedure. Rick Slayman, a 62-year-old from Weymouth, Massachusetts, had a ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful ...

We all know that fruits are important for the human body. From Ayurveda to medical science, fruits are proven to be an ...