Tim Andrews, one of four people to ever get a pig kidney transplant, was on an operating table five months ago. But on Wednesday night, he threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park.

A Concord man who is the recipient of a pig kidney threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Red Sox game Wednesday night.

What if organ transplants effect more than just biological function? Research suggests transplanted pig organs could carry ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have successfully grown tiny human hearts in pig embryos that survived up to 21 ...

Artificial organ transplants have been held back by the difficulty of making networks of blood vessels - a problem scientists ...

Massachusetts General Hospital has performed its second successful genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a patient, MGH reported on Friday. The “miracle” transplant is giving 66-year ...

The company expects the first transplant to occur by mid-2025 ... Towana Looney, a 53-year-old woman from Alabama, received a pig kidney from United Therapeutics on November 25, 2024.

Creating so-called human–animal chimaeras could help address the global shortage of transplantable organs by generating ...

Human-animal embryo research in Japan began in 2019 with the world’s first government-approved study to grow human organs in animals.

Greenwood, Coates and Burton’s company Beta Cell Technologies are committed to finding long-term therapeutic solutions for patients with diabetes and other cell therapy diseases. It collaborates with ...

An organ transplant preservation device for livers and kidneys, developed by OrganOx out of research from the University of Oxford, is up for ...