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

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

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

Genetically modified pigs with human-compatible organs offer a potential solution to the organ shortage crisis, with ongoing research focusing on modifying pig organs to reduce rejection and improve ...

Beneath it sits the kidney of a genetically modified pig that surgeons transplanted ... pig kidney into a living human recipient. Last March, surgeons at Mass General performed the first-ever ...

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 ...

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 ...

which hit the headlines earlier this year when it was used to prevent rejection of the world's first transplant of a pig kidney into a human patient. The results with the first two of a planned ...