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,...

Scientists have said that they are closer to comprehending the best way to turn the human body reactive to an organ donation from another s...

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...

While regrowing kidneys isn't as far along, "I was completely stunned" at the progress so far, said Dr. Ron Shapiro, a kidney transplant ex...

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...

Although many questions remain to be answered about the long-term consequences of the transplant, which involved a brain-dead patient follo...

Senior cardiovascular surgeon at Harvard University Dr Hemant Thatte has worked out a 21-chemical solution that could preserve a donated or...

US-based Indian origin researcher Shuvo Roy has created world's first implantable artificial kidney. Roy's creation will be able to mimic k...