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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...