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

An Australian man in his forties has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with an artificial heart made of ...

Genetically modified pigs with human-compatible organs offer a potential solution to the organ shortage crisis, with ongoing ...

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

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

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first-ever clinical trial of the transplantation of a nonhuman animal organ—a genetically modified pig kidney—into living human ...