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

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

Pigs are the unlikely model for this latest research into regenerating human teeth. Image source: agnormark/Adobe In a recent study, Yelick and her team successfully grew human-like teeth in pigs.

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

For the first time, researchers developed stem cell-derived pig retinal cells in comparison with human retinal cells, ...

Researchers developed pig retinal organoids similar to human ones, advancing stem cell-based vision restoration and enabling ...

They achieved this by taking cells from human dental pulp and mixing them with cells from pigs' tooth buds. As MIT Technology Review discusses, the researchers harvest cells from pig jaws that ...