Natco Pharma's Canadian subsidiary has acquired 40 million shares in eGenesis Inc. for USD 8 million. eGenesis is a biotechnology company d...

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

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

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...

A battery-powered aircraft with no internal combustion has been a goal of engineers ever since the Wright brothers.

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...

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