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

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

The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...

In organ transplantation ... that could extend the lifespan of human tissues for transplantation. They call this technique ...

As with a human donor kidney, he’ll need to take medications for the rest of his life to keep his body from rejecting the organ. “But this transplant isn’t about me,” he said.

An Alabama woman who is also the second person in history to receive a pig kidney transplant is currently surviving for over ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant ... human kidney, making it unlikely that she would ever receive a donated ...

for example — but transplant surgery has the additional difficulty of organ rejection. "Each human being is unique and we express a set of proteins called Human Leucocyte Antigens (HLA), which ...

if they are safe and if it is ethical raising animals for human organ transplantation. Currently, more than 103,000 men, women and children on the national transplant waiting list, according to ...

Towana Looney of Alabama has become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant. The 53-year-old woman passed the ...

Organ transplantation is the most effective therapy ... A blood substitute designed to replace human blood in ex vivo machine perfusion will be a promising direction for prolonging the ...

The U.S. city currently hosting this year’s edition of the Transplant Games ... of donating and receiving organs.” It would appear that, though the science of human organ donation will ...