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 ...

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

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

New Hampshire native Tim Andrews was quite happy to spend his 67th birthday on Wednesday at Mass General Hospital (MGH). On ...

An Australian man in his forties has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with an artificial heart made of ...

Sydney: An Australian man in his forties became the first person in the world to leave a hospital and live 100 days with an artificial titanium heart, marking a historic milestone in medical science.

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

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 ...

One was Dr. Robert Montgomery, a charismatic surgeon at NYU Langone in New York City who is himself alive thanks to a heart transplant. He used an organ from a Revivicor pig with a single gene ...

surgeons at Mass General performed the first-ever pig kidney transplant in a living human, 62-year-old Richard Slayman of Weymouth. Slayman’s recovery began well, but he died of heart problems ...

where they are raised for research in human organ transplants. Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans.