Scientists have achieved an unprecedented look into how the human immune system attacks a transplanted pig kidney, using spatial molecular imaging to map immune activity down to the cellular level.

Human Kidney on a Chip: Disease Modeling, Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials. ... As a consequence of these systems, eventually a bioengineered human proximal tubule was created on a chip in vitro.

The kidney that Looney received was from a pig with 10 different alterations to its DNA, including the removal of two additional genes for molecules that trip the human immune system and a porcine ...

Her immune system would reject a human kidney. So the Food and Drug Administration made an exception to its usual clinical study requirements to let her get a pig kidney that’s been genetically ...

This atlas is the most comprehensive of its kind, incorporating data from 29 human kidney donors. The researchers mapped lipid species across millions of mass spectrometry measurements from more ...

Pigs born on the Revivicor farm in Blacksburg, Virginia, are genetically modified to delete certain pig genes and add human genes, so the recipient's body is less likely to reject the organ.

A Boston hospital announced Thursday that its doctors transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a human patient — marking the first time such a feat has been accomplished. If the ...