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

Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans.

Surgeon Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin is a leader in the novel field of xenotransplantation—transferring organs from one species to another—in his case, from pigs to humans.

How have the first patients fared after receiving organ transplants from genetically modified pigs? Roni Caryn Rabin, a ...

TNX-1500 is active whether the organ comes from the same species or from genetically engineered pigs. So far, TNX-1500 ...

He’ll be the first in a three-patient study and is the second person currently living in the world with a pig kidney. The team at Massachusetts General used an organ developed by Cambridge ...

A Chinese medical team has successfully transplanted a gene-engineered pig kidney into a uremic patient, marking a major clinical ...

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

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 ...

Twelve Americans on the kidney list die every day on average. Scientists first transplanted genetically engineered pig organs into other animals and then to brain-dead human patients. In 2022 ...