A former IT worker has been jailed for 15 months for two acts of animal cruelty linked to protests against asylum seeker housing. In June 2024, security guards at Thornton Hall in north Dublin found ...

Only 10% of people around the world who need organ transplants actually end up receiving them, due to a shortage of suitable donors and extremely complicated logistics. Some scientists have therefore ...

The first clinical trial to assess pig kidney transplantation in humans has commenced. United Therapeutics reported a successful initial transplant at NYU Langone Health. As efforts in ...

Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team headed by Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD ...

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 ...

A New Hampshire man who lived with a gene-edited pig kidney for a record 271 days is resuming dialysis, doctors said Monday. Tim Andrews, 67, had the organ removed on Oct. 23 because of its declining ...

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 ...