Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them.

“Normally, the kidney has no bone, no muscles. If you’ve got a kidney inside the kidney, you only find blood in urine, and ...

Doctors in New York have managed to keep a brain-dead man in a state of sort of suspended animation for more than a month after removing his kidneys and replacing them with one from a pig. A ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a brain-dead man’s body is functioning well more than 4 weeks later.

Kidney specialists warn that recognizing the early signs of chronic kidney disease can make a major difference in preventing serious complications and protecting long-term health.

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 ...

A genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into a recently deceased person kept on life support has been functioning for over a month without signs of rejection or infection. The announcement, by ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A new study published about long-COVID is drawing attention to the risk coronavirus infections are having on declining kidney functions. The study published in the Journal of ...

Scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) are working on a new approach to treating kidney failure that could one day free people from needing dialysis or taking drugs to ...

Kidneys perform many critical functions such as filtering waste from the blood, regulating fluid balance and blood pressure, and helping maintain healthy mineral levels. When kidney health declines, ...