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 ...

There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re commonplace now, but the practice was ...