Doctors in Boston have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient, the latest experiment in the quest to use animal organs in humans. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday that it ...

At 9 a.m., Dr. Alban Longchamp and Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, transplant surgeons at Mass General, opened the pig’s abdomen and prepared the animal for the surgery. At 10:30, they sewed the kidney in.

Man gets kidney transplant surgery while awake 01:45. Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine performed a kidney transplant on an awake patient, marking a first for the Chicago-based healthcare system ...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital surgeons performed their 1st awake kidney transplant on a patient with Crohn's Disease in Chicago last month.

In a world first, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a person with chronic kidney disease. The historic procedure builds ...