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

The US recently approved clinical trials for pig kidney transplants, opening the door to the potential use of other organs and body parts A pig's heart beating in a human? This medical feat has ...

More than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a new heart, kidney or some other organ. Many will die waiting.

The statement said the issue will be discussed at an upcoming meeting of CDC’s expert vaccine panel, ACIP. It was scheduled ...

Many patients with organ failure, tethered to a dialysis machine four hours every other day, see in these small pigs hope for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a ...

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.

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.

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

Tim Andrews had not felt great in a long time, but he says all that changed when he became the second patient at ...