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

Doctors at Xijing Hospital, affiliated with Air Force Medical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, recently transplanted a ...

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 ...

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

Genetically modified pigs with human-compatible organs offer a potential solution to the organ shortage crisis, with ongoing ...

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 ...

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 ...

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.

The xenotransplantation approach seeks to alleviate shortage of human organs, and could potentially provide a lifeline to ...

Beneath it sits the kidney of a genetically modified pig that surgeons transplanted into his body six weeks ago. Dr. Leonardo Riella squirts a cold gel on Andrews’ belly, and presses an ...