For the First Time, Pig Kidneys Provide Life-Sustaining Organ Function in a Human–Hope for 100,000 Waiting for Donors

University of Alabama ’s pre-clinical human study at Birmingham advances promise of xenotransplantation as a therapy to potentially cure end-stage kidney disease.

Kidney disease kills more people each year than breast or prostate cancer, while more than 90,000 people are on the transplant waiting list.

More than 800,000 Americans are living with kidney failure and 240 Americans on dialysis die every day .