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.

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

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

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

Capstan CEO Maggie Nixon discusses first-in-human feedback, the all-at-once approach, regulatory strategy and the tricuspid ...

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 ...

United Therapeutics in downtown Silver Spring has received FDA regulatory approval to begin clinical trials for pig-to-human ...

A new mom shares her story after an emergency heart transplant, a mysterious illness in Africa that experts say isn't a ...

Doctors at Duke Children's Hospital were able to perform three life-saving surgeries after one donor heart became available.

Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney, is headed back home to Alabama.