Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to ...

WASHINGTON — A woman who received a pig kidney ... heart medications. Despite the dialysis and implanted heart pump, Pisano eventually entered hospice care and died Sunday, NYU Langone ...

Then doctors at NYU Langone Health devised a novel one-two punch: Implant a mechanical pump to keep her heart beating and days later transplant a kidney from a genetically modified pig.

The pig liver began producing bile two hours after the transplant ... “The heart functions as a pump to pump blood to the whole human body, and the major function of the kidney is to produce ...

A very different kind of "hog farm" is being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited pigs in a $110 million pathogen-free facility to harvest kidneys and ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had to see if their method would work in a pig. By Gina Kolata On the ...

But the devil is in the details Woman Becomes First Person to Receive Both Pig Kidney Transplant and Heart Pump A woman with life-threatening heart and kidney disease became the second person ever ...

In January, he had an experimental cross-species transplant of a kidney ... first person to receive a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney. The organ failed due to limited ...