Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them.

A pig kidney has continued to function inside of a human body for roughly two months, the longest documented instance of such a procedure, known as a xenotransplant. Researchers at NYU Langone ...

Doctors in New York have managed to keep a brain-dead man in a state of sort of suspended animation for more than a month after removing his kidneys and replacing them with one from a pig. A ...

A genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into a recently deceased person kept on life support has been functioning for over a month without signs of rejection or infection. The announcement, by ...

NEW YORK, NY (Nov. 13, 2025)--A study of a pig kidney that flourished for two months in a brain-dead recipient shows that a protocol developed by Columbia University immunologists can help prevent ...

Scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough in kidney research. In a paper published in the journal Communications Biology, a team of researchers at Kyoto University led by Ramin Sadeghian present ...

Understanding eGFR and uPCR is vital for managing IgA nephropathy to predict kidney health, guide treatment, and work ...

Research is shedding light on kidneys, their critical functions, and predictors of disease. The research co-led by Matthias Kretzler, M.D. describes the creation of a cellular atlas of the kidney ...