Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to wonder whether it was worth it. Desperate for another option, he found a ...

In January, he had an experimental cross-species transplant of a kidney from a genetically modified pig. He is one of only a handful of patients who have undergone the experimental procedure.

It conducted the first successful pig-to-human heart transplant in 2022 and the first pig-to-human kidney transplant in 2024. In February, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a clinical ...

$110 million pathogen-free facility on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited pigs to harvest kidneys and hearts for transplantation into humans. Construction is underway Wednesday ...

“It’s a combination of excitement and relief,” Dr. Robert Montgomery, the transplant surgeon who led the experiment, told The Associated Press. “Two months is a lot to have a pig kidney in ...