Scientists have been trying to transplant animal organs into humans for nearly two centuries. The first known attempt was made in 1838, when a pig cornea was transplanted into a human’s eye ...

Until now, such transplants have been approved under the ... when a doctor transplanted a pig cornea into a human in an unsuccessful attempt to fix their eyesight. Pigs are more widely available ...

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

The study will allow researchers to evaluate the safety and efficacy of an approach to substituting pig kidneys for human ones in people who desperately need a transplant yet are either ineligible ...

An online search led him to Mass General’s work in the field of pig-to-human organ transplants. MGH nephrologist Leonardo Riella and surgeon Tatsuo Kawai talk with reporters about Massachusetts ...

An Alabama woman who received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone in November is recovering well more than 60 days after the procedure. On Nov. 25, a team of clinicians at the New ...

While donated cornea from a human donor must be used within two weeks, the bioengineered cornea can be stored for up to two years before use. More than 8 million people in India have corneal ...

“This could be a revolutionary treatment that could overcome the challenges that existing treatment has faced, such as a shortage of cornea donors or transplant rejection,” said Koji ...