Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...

Organ xenotransplantation, the transplantation of genetically engineered organs from pigs to humans, is not a viable solution for the organ shortage, according to a new article by authors affiliated ...

Organ transplantation is often heralded as a miraculous ... He died right there on the street hugging his violin case.” In her book A Change of Heart, Claire Sylvia, a heart-lung transplant ...

The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.

Will pigs solve the organ crisis? The future of animal-to-human transplants The FDA’s green light will bring the experimental procedure a step closer to one day supplying organs to the thousands ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...