It's early days for xenotransplantation, but eGenesis, Eledon, United Therapeutics and more are working to develop solutions ...

The radical “innovation” of xenotransplantation—the idea of transplanting genetically engineered organs from animals into ...

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

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

All four patients who received pig organs to replace their diseased organs have now died, though researchers involved in ...

Three patients who received pig organs died within eight weeks of their surgeries and a NJ patient had transplanted pig ...

Xenotransplantation (transplantation of organs from other species to humans) is now seen as a solution to the problem. Several issues have to be considered in choosing the appropriate species ...

Such species-to-species transplants, called xenotransplantation, offer a technical solution to a basic problem: There are more people in need than there are organs, be they from living or brain-dead ...

For decades, the promise of xenotransplantation — the transplantation of organs from animals into humans — has remained just beyond reach. The field has long been dogged by immunological ...

The chronic shortage of organs for transplantation has some bioethicists supporting unethical curatives, such as doing away with the dead-donor rule, allowing organ procurement to be not only ...

The xenotransplantation approach seeks to alleviate shortage of human organs, and could potentially provide a lifeline to ...