"We've really gotten a much better sense for what it looks like (for) the pig kidney to replace all of the functions of the human kidney," he said. "It's always something the FDA has asked about." ...

Surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a ... So far it's looking like it is," Dr ... "It looks even better than a human kidney," Montgomery said on July 14 ...

Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man, and it has worked for over a month — a step toward transplants of animal organs into living patients.

The second patient to receive a pig heart in place of his own has died. He lived just six weeks, two weeks less than the first recipient. Lawrence Faucette, 58, had received a heart from a gene ...