How have the first patients fared after receiving organ transplants from genetically modified pigs? Roni Caryn Rabin, a ...

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 ...

View Full Profile. 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 ...

The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure, his family and the hospital that performed the surgery said Saturday.

Rick Slayman, a 62-year-old man who had received a genetically modified pig kidney on March 16 at Massachusetts General Hospital, died this weekend. He had terminal kidney disease when he received ...

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 ...

Japanese researchers said they have produced three piglets cloned from a pig that was genetically modified to prevent rejection of its organs in transplants to humans. PorMedTec Co., a Kawasaki ...

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