A groundbreaking medical milestone was achieved with the first successful transplantation of a genetically engineered pig ...

Mr Andrews contacted the medical team at Mass General Hospital ( MGH), the hospital in Massachusetts that had carried out the ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

The Japanese startup PorMedTec plans to open a farm by 2027 to raise cloned pigs for organ transplantation. PorMedTec, ...

With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited ...

The wait for a life-saving organ is agonizing. Every eight minutes, another name is added to the already overwhelming transplant list. Thousands die each year, waiting for a chance at survival.

More than 100,000 Americans are waiting for an organ transplant, and Minnesota researchers think pigs could help them. Miromatrix Medical Inc., an Eden Prairie biotechnology company, works to create ...

(CNN) — About 13 people die every day while waiting for a kidney transplant because of a lack of organ donors, but some scientists think pigs could be the answer. In a new trial that researchers say ...

A New Hampshire man lived with a pig kidney for a record 271 days before surgeons removed it last week as the organ's ...

A New Hampshire man who received a genetically edited pig kidney in January had that kidney removed in a procedure last week, ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have removed a pig kidney from a New Hampshire man 271 days after the innovative ...