An Alabama woman has become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, passing 60 days with a gene-edited kidney and showing no signs of slowing down.

The human body has 78 organs and each one performs ... Kidney disease results from kidney damage and subsequent decline in kidney function, says Dr. Pooja Budhiraja, a nephrologist and ...

Stop the Spread. Injecting saline into mouse kidneys did not affect the left or right substantia nigra (top). Injecting fibrils of α-synuclein ablated about half of the dopaminergic neurons (middle ...

Kidney transplantation ... for treating kidney failure and can save a patient's life. This procedure involves implanting a kidney from an organ donor into the patient’s body to replace the ...

According to studies, since the adult human body weight is around 60 per cent water single organ - from your brain to the liver, would need water to function. Since your kidneys are your body’s ...

Type 2 diabetes is a leading cause of chronic kidney disease, which affects more than 1 in 7 U.S. adults. The new approval ...