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

Selective breeding over the past century has shortened and flattened the snouts of German domestic pigs. Though not an ...

Alabama woman becomes longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant, defying expectations and paving the way for future xenotransplantation.

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment. His effort pa ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the US. The recipient of the genetically modified pig organ was a 66-year-old man with kidney ...

The lab of Dr. Mark Magnuson, Louise B. McGavock Professor and professor of molecular physiology and biophysics at Vanderbilt ...

Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...