The first person to receive a transplant of a kidney from a pig has died almost two months after the procedure, although the transplant itself does not seem to be involved
Surgeons in the US have carried out the world’s first transplant of a pig kidney into a human, a feat made possible by genetic modification of the organ and an experimenta
Over three million people live with kidney disease in the UK. Some will progress to end-stage kidney disease, which is ultimately fatal, without either dialysis or kidney transplant.