Pioneering research led by Brazilians describes the immune system's reactions in detail in the first living patient to receive a genetically modified ...

(WSVN) - Researchers in Virginia are growing modified pigs, whose organs could be used to help bridge the large gap in human donors. Scientists inside the research farm all share a common goal, ...

BOSTON (AP) — The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure, his family and the hospital that performed the surgery ...

BOSTON — A Massachusetts man who became the first patient to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig was discharged from a Boston hospital on Wednesday -- several weeks after his ...

The first living person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig has died less than two months after undergoing the procedure. His doctors say the man's death had nothing to do with the ...

Rick Slayman, who in March became the first living person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has died. One of his doctors talks about what was learned from the historic transplant.