This groundbreaking achievement marks a significant leap in minimally invasive transplant surgery, setting a new standard for precision, safety and care for living donors. The latest innovation ...

Living-donor transplantation is an option for some organs. For people over 18 born with two functioning kidneys, they can donate one and continue to live a healthy life. An altruistic living-donor ...

Nearly one in three kidney transplants come from a living donor, and some of those involve complex three-way swaps between ...

The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...

Michael Privitera’s family has been on the hunt for a living kidney donor with no success. But they’re not giving up hope.

Huong of the National Children's Hospital in Hanoi received a call late on December 18, 2024 from the National Center for ...

The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...

The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...

With this robot, we can achieve that goal and save more lives," said David Bruno, M.D., FACS, director of Hume-Lee Transplant ... is truly the future of living donor surgery.