That's when he began to consider Slayman a candidate for the pig transplant surgery. Because Slayman is the first, it's not clear how long the kidney will continue to work well. "We're aiming for ...

A monkey with a gene-edited pig kidney managed to survive for over six months in China as scientists continue to make ...

Pig-to-human kidney transplants. A blood test for Alzheimer’s. Birth control without a prescription. These were just a few of ...

Chinese scientists successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a macaque (a monkey of the genus Macaca, ...

The death of Rick Slayman, the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, was caused by an “unexpected cardiac event,” and there was no sign his body was ...

Chinese scientists successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a macaque earlier this year achieving organ function for more tha ...

and liver sourced from their pigs in formal clinical trials. The kidney and heart trials will involve a typical transplantation, while the liver trial will test if these organs can be used outside ...

The death of a Weymouth man two months after undergoing what his doctors at Mass General Hospital described as the first ...

Richard Slayman, the first successful recipient of a pig-to-human kidney transplant, died in May from heart complications unrelated to the procedure, according to Massachusetts General Hospital.

The first person to receive a transplant of a kidney from a pig has died almost two months after the procedure, although the transplant itself does not seem to be involved. 62-year-old Rick ...

The death of a Weymouth man two months after undergoing what his doctors at Mass General Hospital described as the first successful pig-to-human kidney transplant was caused by "an unexpected ...