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

(AP) - An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting. “I ...

An online search led him to Mass General’s work in the field of pig-to-human organ transplants. MGH nephrologist Leonardo Riella and surgeon Tatsuo Kawai talk with reporters about Massachusetts ...

The scientists who created Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, today said the prospect of pigs' organs being transplanted into humans had moved one step closer following successful gene ...

He’ll be the first in a three-patient study and is the second person currently living in the world with a pig kidney. The team at Massachusetts General used an organ developed by Cambridge ...

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

TNX-1500 is active whether the organ comes from the same species or from genetically engineered pigs. So far, TNX-1500 treatment in these animal transplantation studies has shown a dramatic ...

The beach is shrinking at Makaha, spotlighting the struggle against coastal erosion around the state. A California man isn’t letting his age pin him down after he bowled a perfect game at 87 ...