DARO, a Lincoln-based company, wants to change how farmers track disease in pigs. The startup has received over $1 million to ...

Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans.

Erectile dysfunction affects over 40% of men over 40, yet our understanding of the condition remains limited. Research on ...

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

NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney ...

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. "I feel ...

HealthDay News — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure, marking a major step forward in ...

The Pope remains in a critical condition and is now showing an "initial, mild" kidney problem - but is "vigilant" and took part in Mass in hospital with those caring for him. The Vatican statement ...

A pig’s heart beating in a human? This medical feat has already been achieved – at least for a short time. Kidneys from animals have also been transplanted. Last year, a 62-year-old man lived ...

If pig organ transplants prove to be safe and effective, questions remain about their cost and insurance coverage. HealthDay News — Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully ...

Mass General Hospital discharges second recipient of pig kidney transplant on Feb. 1 Eledon Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s drug tegoprubart played a key role in the success of the second-ever kidney ...

These super pigs have American border states on guard. Experts say they pose a multibillion-dollar threat to the U.S. economy if they ever cross from Canada into the U.S. Brook, one of Canada's ...