The kidney, a critical organ for waste filtration and fluid regulation, is the subject of a groundbreaking molecular mapping project that could reshape our understanding of renal health. Despite ...

Spanish scientists have successfully combined human kidney organoids with pig kidneys and transplanted them back into the same animal, therefore creating the world’s first functional human-pig hybrid ...

Photography: Steve Wood For the first time in a human, genetically modified pig kidneys provided “life-sustaining kidney function” during the course of a planned seven-day study — all while using ...

In late 2025, surgeons at NYU Langone marked a rare milestone in medicine: they transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living human. The organ had been grown inside a pig with specific ...

ENG: Confocal microscopy image of a kidney organoid on day 16 of differentiation. The cells have been labelled different colours using immunofluorescence to identify specific components: LTL (green: ...