German scientists plan to clone and then breed this year genetically modified pigs to serve as heart donors ... “the founder animals”, from which future genetically identical generations ...

The original genetically modified pig was produced by U.S. biotechnology ... of xenotransplantation in Japan is a story for the future, but I believe that the best way to promote it is for us ...

A team of surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical School announced on Monday they had implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human being. Considered a world first ...

The genetically modified pig was grown at eGenesis in Cambridge ... Slayman continues to be on anti-rejection drugs, and the future of his new functioning kidney remains unknown, but he is ...

The first organs taken from genetically engineered pigs have been put into people and ... then xenotransplantation "could be successful in the future" but if it came down to anatomy then it ...

The world’s first successful transplant of a pig’s heart into a human being ... s body didn’t immediately reject the genetically modified heart is thought to be extremely encouraging.

This photo provided by PorMedTec Co. shows a surrogate pig pregnant with genetically modified piglets with organs suitable for human transplantation. TOKYO -- A Japanese research team announced on ...

"Peru", the genetically modified guinea pig, celebrated two decades on Thursday. The genetically modified breed of guinea pig ...

Doctors say that Richard Slayman, the world’s first living person to have received a genetically ... the modified pigs used in this research, revealed the company’s immediate future.

Rick Slayman, a 62-year-old man who had received a genetically modified pig kidney on March 16 at Massachusetts General Hospital, died this weekend. He had terminal kidney disease when he received ...

The first man to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig has been discharged from hospital. The 62-year-old was sent home on Wednesday, two weeks after the ground-breaking ...