The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...

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This internal left-right asymmetry is believed to begin at the very early stage of development -- when a tiny embryo is divided into two parts during a process called gastrulation. This process ...

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A pair of physicists at the University of Crete has found that some types of biological magnetoreceptors used by various ...

Organ meats might not be on your culinary radar quite yet if you don't come from a culture that routinely eats them. But that ...

The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...

The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.

Towana Looney of Alabama is 'going strong and feeling great' after a pig kidney transplant. No one has lived longer with an ...

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ ...