Pigs have been chosen as an ideal species for xenotransplantation due to their physiological similarities to humans and their ...

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

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

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

A 3D-printed penis implant has restored erectile function to rabbits and pigs in a world first. Pigs with damage to their ...

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Advancements in 3D bioprinting have taken a bold new step: a team of researchers from China, Japan, and the United States has ...

Live tissue training’, using an anaesthetised live animal substituted for a human patient for the practice of surgical skills ...

How have the first patients fared after receiving organ transplants from genetically modified pigs? Roni Caryn Rabin, a health reporter on the Science desk of The New York Times, looks at the results ...

Virginia's first heart transplant in 1968 involved a Dinwiddie Black man whose family was never contacted for consent to ...

Tim Andrews had not felt great in a long time, but he says all that changed when he became the second patient at Massachusetts General Hospital to undergo a pig kidney transplant. "During the dialysis ...