Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to wonder whether it was worth it. Desperate for another option, he found a ...

“Shannon came into the lab and said, ‘Is it possible to translate this to human organs?’” Mr. Taggart said. Image ... banks of frozen pig kidneys that were genetically modified to be ...

On a farm in the southern US state of Virginia, David Ayares and his research teams are breeding genetically modified pigs to ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients ... the original liver in a human being—and would ...

The 32 days represent “the longest period in which a genetically modified pig kidney has functioned in a human,” according ... and thymus gland transplanted into the patient came from a ...

Surgeons in the US who transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead patient announced ... alpha-gal – a prime target for roving human antibodies – the NYU Langone team ...

The genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into Looney was designed to prevent immediate rejection by the human body ..

The eventual goal is to transplant pig kidneys into humans. The original genetically modified pig was produced ... The limited number of donated human organs has been a global health issue ...