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

Doctors at Xijing Hospital, affiliated with Air Force Medical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, recently transplanted a ...

New Hampshire native Tim Andrews was quite happy to spend his 67th birthday on Wednesday at Mass General Hospital (MGH). On ...

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

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

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

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 ...

Doctors at Xijing Hospital of Air Force Military Medical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, recently transplanted a multi ...

Tim Andrews had not felt great in a long time, but he says all that changed when he became the second patient at Massachusetts General Hospital to undergo a pig kidney transplant. "During the dialysis ...

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.

The promise of CD40L blockers is to modulate the immune system rather than suppress it. Traditional immunosuppression drugs ...

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 ...