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.

At least four live pig-kidney-to-human transplants have been reported to date, all in the United States. The patient who ...

An Australian man in his forties has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with an artificial heart made of ...

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

Mavis McArdle survived a liver transplant using a pig's ogran in 1994 and lived to the age of 86. She died on March 10, 2025.

The promise of CD40L blockers is to modulate the immune system rather than suppress it. Traditional immunosuppression drugs ...

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

How have the first patients fared after receiving organ transplants from genetically modified pigs? Roni Caryn Rabin, a health reporter on the Science desk of The New York Times, looks at the results ...

That's why doctors and researchers have turned to non-human organs to make up for the shortfall. In March 2024 doctors performed the first ever transplant of a modified pig kidney into a living human.

TNX-1500 is active whether the organ comes from the same species or from genetically engineered pigs. So far, TNX-1500 treatment in these animal transplantation studies has shown a dramatic ...