The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really save lives.

The latest record, 271 days, was set by a New Hampshire man transplanted at Massachusetts General Hospital; he is also back ...

NYU Langone launches pig kidney clinical trial to evaluate genetically engineered organs for end-stage renal disease patients.

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

Tim Andrews, 67, had the organ removed on Oct. 23 because of its declining function, according to Mass General Brigham.

Mr Andrews contacted the medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH) that had carried out the operation. On January ...

Surgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with an incurable cancerous tumor, and it functioned for more than a month ...

A modified pig kidney has functioned successfully in a human body for a month now, setting a record for animal-to-human kidney transplants, NYU Langone doctors said Wednesday. The genetically altered ...

History’s first pig-human hybrids have been grown in a lab, stoking fears of a porcine mutant apocalypse. The strange hybrids, known as chimeras, contain a mixture of pig and human cells. Ethicists ...

In a bid to make organs for patients in need of transplants, scientists have created embryos that were hybrids of humans and pigs and grown them until they were on the verge of developing the body ...

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for lifesaving transplants. Pigs have ...