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

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

This experiment was conducted at China’s Huazhong University of Science and Technology to make significant advancements in interspecies organ transplantation. According to media reports, the pig ...

A Japanese research team announced on Nov. 25 that it has successfully transplanted a pig kidney genetically modified for ...

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

The new development is significant, insofar as the lack of successful long-term animal testing of gene-edited pig organs have ...

The development could pave the way for better treatment for human patients who currently face long waits for transplants.

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

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.