Richard Slayman, 62, passed away two months after a groundbreaking genetically modified pig kidney transplant at Massachusetts General Hosp...

Lisa Pisano's combination of heart and kidney failure left her too sick to qualify for a traditional transplant, and out of options. Then d...

In a groundbreaking procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital, doctors successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient,...

A 58-year-old man named Lawrence Faucette, who was suffering from heart failure and disqualified from a conventional heart transplant, unde...

A genetically modified pig kidney has achieved an unprecedented milestone by functioning successfully within a human body for approximately...

Researchers have successfully grown a humanized kidney inside a pig, a development that could help address the shortage of organs for trans...

The latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a decease...

The pig that 'donated' its heart in the Maryland operation was genetically modified so that its heart would not trigger the type of fatal p...

While it's too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for l...

A US medical team carried a surgery involving a genetically modified donor animal and a brain dead patient on a ventilator whose family had...

London, June 21 (IANS) Genetically modified pigs are resistant to the world's costliest livestock diseases that causes breathing trouble, d...

New York, Oct 25 (IANS) Using the gene-editing technology CRISPR, Chinese scientists have created pigs that are thinner and leaner -- with ...

Believe it or not, pigs might soon extend the lives of people waiting for organ donations.

Chinese scientists made headlines when they used a gene-editing technique to modify the genomes of human embryos for the first time.

At least when it comes to what poultry parts they want on their plates -and chickens yield equal quantities of in-demand breasts and unwant...

A planned EU/US trade deal should sweep away "non-scientific barriers" to US sales of many genetically modified crops and some chemically t...

Pictures of US President George Bush making faces and in postures similar to chimpanzees in a new genetic study may have amused the Marxist...