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

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

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

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be ...

On a farm in the southern American state of Virginia, Dr David Ayares and his research teams are breeding genetically-modified ... the implantation of animal organs into humans – which aims ...

The biosecurity gets even tighter just a few miles away in Christiansburg, Virginia, where a new herd is being raised – pigs expected to supply organs for formal studies of animal-to-human ...

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

Bacterial cells have been genetically modified ... human insulin and other substances. The advantage of golden rice is that it can be used in areas where vitamin A deficiency is common, so it can ...

The genetic modification of things like crops and animals is an area of scientific development that is aimed to help support the human race on planet Earth, with genetically modified pigs being ...

Led by WSU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Professor Jiyue Zhu, the research team has developed mice that have human-like short telomeres, enabling the study of cellular aging as it ...

2003). Genetically modified animals have even been used to grow transplant tissues and human transplant organs, a concept called xenotransplantation. The rich variety of uses for GMOs provides a ...

Here are some of the weird and wacky experiments researchers have done on animals over the years. Could humans be next?