who wonders if researchers next might consider tracking the organs for a week or so in a donated body rather than just three days. Surgeons prepare a genetically modified pig heart for transplant ...

What if organ transplants effect more than just biological function? Research suggests transplanted pig organs could carry ...

But although non-human primate organs would be the best match ... "We have spent decades developing our own transgenic pigs for clinical transplants here in Australia and require more support ...

ABC News visits scientists raising pigs with genetically modified organs. There are more than 100,000 people currently waiting for an organ transplant and it’s estimated that another person is ...

Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty Images The successful transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney into a human patient has raised hopes that cutting-edge technology can make pig organs ...

A half-dozen or so well-supported biotechnology companies have sprung into existence to pursue the creation of transgenic animals -- pigs with human genes, primarily -- or to develop novel ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...

By Roni Caryn Rabin The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to two biotechnology companies for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs ...

And patients given pig organs so far have been “compassionate use” transplants, experiments that FDA allows in select emergency cases for people out of other options. Although the first four ...

The successful transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney into a human patient has raised hopes that cutting-edge technology can make pig organs safe for other transplant patients. Towana Looney ...