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

“But primates turned out to be too small, too expensive and too controversial,” said Dr. Art Caplan, a professor of bioethics and founding head ... transplant two genetically modified pig ...

where they are raised for research in human organ transplants. Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans.

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 ...

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

So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...

During the November 25, 2024, transplant surgery at NYU Langone's Kimmel Pavilion, Looney received a kidney from a 10-gene-edited pig, becoming only the third person in the world to receive a pig ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney, is ...

Scientists first transplanted genetically engineered pig organs into other animals and then to brain-dead human patients. In 2022, researchers received permission to transplant the organs into a ...