Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney ...

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, ...

A kidney transplant patient has died in Ohio after receiving an organ infected with rabies.

For many people, the idea of donating an organ seems far too daunting. But it doesn't have to be, some researchers argue.

A Michigan resident has died from rabies following a kidney transplant at a hospital in Ohio. Investigations show that the ...

The newly documented transplant was conducted in March 2024 ... Wang says the team also recently transplanted a pig kidney into a human, and that patient should be well enough to go home soon.

A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant, health officials said. The ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

A Florida resident died in 2013 after receiving a kidney transplant about a year earlier ... Fewer than 10 human rabies deaths are recorded annually. Globally, the World Health Organization ...

Human cases are exceedingly rare in the ... In the same year, 27,759 kidney transplants were performed nationwide. Kidney transplant recipients have a 1-year survival rate of 93%-98% and a 5 ...