For these patients, even a temporarily functional pig kidney might be valuable as they wait for an available human kidney. (sciencemag.org)
The team is now attempting the same procedure using human kidneys, and also pig kidneys, which could be used to make scaffolds if there were a scarcity of human donors. (newscientist.com)
The team has already successfully repopulated pig kidneys with human cells, but Ott says further studies are vital to guarantee that the pig components of the organ do not cause rejection when transplanted into humans. (newscientist.com)