A 66-year-old man has become the fourth person in the world to receive a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, performed ...

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...

United Therapeutics has scored a regulatory green light to start clinical trials for its genetically modified pig kidneys to ...

In a significant development for organ transplantation, two U.S. biotechnology companies, United Therapeutics and ...

Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their ...

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant - healthy ...

A million-dollar facility will soon be built in Texas that will breed genetically-modified pigs for medical science.

To address the growing shortage of transplantable human organs, scientists are genetically modifying pigs to make their organs more suitable for human transplantation. With more than 100,000 ...

"We're quite optimistic that this is going to continue to work and work well for, you know, a significant period of time," he said.Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more ...

Why scientists are using pig organs for transplants Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable human organs.