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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...