Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...

Scientists from Australia have successfully bioengineered genetically modified fruit flies and zebrafish capable of absorbing ...

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

Australian scientists have found an effective new way to clean up methylmercury, one of the world's most dangerous pollutants ...

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

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 ...

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

The genetically modified animal model could lead to new treatments for the global disease Lauren Rust, Ph.D., assistant staff ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed the first transgenic nonhuman primate model—genetically ...

During a two-and-a-half-hour procedure, doctors at Mass General transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig ... have raised concerns about animal-to-human transplants.

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