Surgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with an incurable cancerous tumor, and it functioned for more ...

A recent study achieved a landmark breakthrough in pig-to-human kidney xenotransplantation by studying the immune system's rejection response up close. Dr. Valentin Goutaudier and his team from the ...

Rick Slayman, the first human recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney, has died Michelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital Rick Slayman, the first human to receive a transplant of a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Two different gene-edited pig kidneys have been successfully transplanted into living human patients under FDA’s ...

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital on Thursday said they have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a human living with kidney disease, the first such procedure in the world. The ...

This area of research is still in the early stages, but it could someday help reduce wait times for patients needing kidney ...

US man Tim Andrews has been broken the record for the longest length of time with a genetically modified animal organ. He hopes more people will receive GM pig kidneys as clinical trials ramp up.

The surgery was initially deemed successful ... in this case – are crucial to knock out pig genes that the human immune system may react to, as well to improve compatibility with the human body as ...

In a first-in-human experiment, an enzyme-converted kidney was transplanted into a brain-dead recipient. For two days, the ...

In 1975, my sister Robin, at 19, became a living kidney donor for our brother. A few years later, we backpacked through Europe. She later married, had two beautiful children, and launched a successful ...