Recently, they have achieved a medical milestone. Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of ...

Efforts to transplant animal organs into humans reached a milestone, when researchers in China reported that a patient ...

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

On a 300-acre farm in an undisclosed location in rural Wisconsin, surrounded by fields dotted with big red barns and bordered ...

The kidney in that case was supplied by United Therapeutics and has a lower level of genetic modification, but was accompanied by the transplant of tissue from the pig thymus designed to reduce ...

and subsequent transplantation of pig thymus tissue into mice so that new T cells passing through the thymus tissue are taught to recognize pig antigens as 'self'. Mice treated in this way do not ...

Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney, is headed back home to Alabama. "I feel ...