A small, early trial of a vaccine that mobilizes the immune system to battle advanced kidney cancers appears successful, ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure.

United Therapeutics has scored a regulatory green light to start clinical trials for its genetically modified pig kidneys to ...

In a significant development for organ transplantation, two U.S. biotechnology companies, United Therapeutics and ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people ...

United Therapeutics Corp. announced Feb. 4. that it will start a trial in mid-2025 with six patients who have end-stage renal disease. These patients, who have been on dialysis for at least six months ...

Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their ...

The organs will come from genetically modified pigs in the hopes of helping the thousands of Americans waiting for transplants. Also in the news: the world's smallest heart pump, nanoplastics in the ...

The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...

The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.

The US Food and Drug Administration approved clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into ...

Towana Looney of Alabama is 'going strong and feeling great' after a pig kidney transplant. No one has lived longer with an ...