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Alice plays croquet with the Queen. But what are the rules - and how can Alice play croquet when the ball is a hedgehog?

Porcine kidney connected to the normothermic perfusion machine. This device allows the kidney to be preserved alive and oxygenated ex vivo (outside the body).Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia ...

A pioneering technology has been developed that enables human kidney organoids to be produced in a scalable manner by allowing the organoids to be combined with ex vivo pig kidneys and then ...

FOR YEARS Tim Andrews, a pensioner from New Hampshire, suffered with failing kidneys. Dialysis could not stop a steady decline in his health. “Most likely I was going to pass away before I got to the ...

With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited pig organs can bridge the gap. Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital ...

A groundbreaking study in the Journal of Hepatology describes the first-ever liver xenotransplant from a genetically modified pig to a human. The recipient, a 71-year-old man with advanced liver ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for almost half a year. The 71-year-old man's own liver was irreversibly scarred by ...

Transplanting organs from non-human animals into people could revolutionise medicine, potentially saving thousands of lives that are lost while people wait for organs. Scientists have previously ...

Background: Porcine genome editing has revolutionized xenotransplantation, recently enabling the first pig-to-human heart xenotransplants. However, the xeno-immune response in heart xenografts remains ...