He was meant to enjoy a quiet life in a male-only enclosure, but Randy, a mischievous guinea pig from Warwickshire, UK, had other plans. In one of the most amusing animal stories ever recorded, this ...

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 ...

Background: Transgenic mice expressing the human R120G mutant αB-crystallin (hR120GCryAB)—an autosomal dominant mutation—develop progressive cardiomyopathy, with atrial remodeling preceding ...

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 ...

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 ...

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bonn, Ernst-Abbe-Str. 2 53127 Bonn, Germany Institute of Physics and Center for Nanotechnology, University of Münster, Heisenbergstraße ...