A very different kind of “hog farm” being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited ...

Urine for a breakthrough — in a true medical milestone, UCLA surgeons completed the world’s first in-human bladder transplant ...

Transplant doctors started experimenting with ... He was too sick to qualify for a human heart but was able to undergo the experimental procedure under the US Food and Drug Administration ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

More people could be given a second chance at life thanks to a new discovery by Mayo Clinic researchers that could mean more ...

Current treatments to prevent organ transplant rejection focus mainly on suppressing T cells, part of the adaptive immune ...

The first transplant in this trial is expected to be performed around mid-2025. The 10 gene-edited animals at the Stewartville facility will produce "UKidneys" and "UHearts" and pigs with one gene ...

Researchers identified a natural 'brake' within the innate immune system: the inhibitory receptor Siglec-E (SigE) and its human counterparts, Siglec-7 and Siglec-9. This receptor helps prevent ...