"It's like a second opportunity at life, to do things better than before," transplant recipient Sergio Arias Cestoni told ...

Too often, patients with chronic kidney disease get diagnosed too late – if at all. Addressing risk factors early can stave ...

A PIG’S liver has been transplanted into a living human for the first time by Chinese scientists. Surgeons have grafted ...

Patients with severe liver disease could one day be kept alive with livers transplanted from pigs, scientists say. A team in ...

Chinese Researchers Report a Pig Kidney Transplant and a First-Step Liver Experiment WASHINGTON ... is a 69-year-old woman diagnosed with kidney failure eight years ago. But Wang pointed to ...

Kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease (ESRD), occurs when kidneys lose their ability to filter waste and excess fluids from the blood effectively. This serious condition affects ...

Chinese scientists have successfully transplanted a pig's liver into a human recipient, in a world first. Researchers at the ...

“35 million people in this country are suffering from kidney disease, and most of them are unaware of the disease. It’s a ...

The consequence of low blood protein depends on how low the protein becomes, which protein is low, and the cause of the low ...

A Chinese patient is the third person in world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney. And the same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person.

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.