In the first few instances, this medical feat has already been achieved - at least for a short time. Kidneys from animals ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States.

A team of surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical School announced on Monday they had implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human being. Considered a world first ...

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...

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 ...

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...

Eledon Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s drug tegoprubart played a key role in the success of the second-ever kidney transplant from a ...

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...