Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans.

Genetically modified pigs with human-compatible organs offer a potential solution to the organ shortage crisis, with ongoing ...

Tim Andrews is recovering well after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Massachusetts General Hospital is ...

How have the first patients fared after receiving organ transplants from genetically modified pigs? Roni Caryn Rabin, a health reporter on the Science desk of The New York Times, looks at the results ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. Several years ago, at a lab near a massive experimental farm in Guangdong Province in China, scientists prepped a whopping 4,008 genetically modified pig embryos ...

A team of surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical School announced on Monday they had implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human being. Considered a world first ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first-ever clinical trial of the transplantation of a nonhuman animal organ—a genetically modified pig kidney—into living human ...

The xenotransplantation approach seeks to alleviate shortage of human organs, and could potentially provide a lifeline to ...

In late November she became the first person in the world to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney. Now two months have passed. Four other patients previously received different ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States.

Beneath it sits the kidney of a genetically modified pig that surgeons transplanted into his body six weeks ago. Dr. Leonardo Riella squirts a cold gel on Andrews’ belly, and presses an ...