The story of transplants has always been one of altruism. After all, organs can be neither sold nor purchased. They can only ...

CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains the science of xenotransplantation, which is the procedure of ...

Transplanting animal organs into humans, known as xenotransplantation, has long felt like science fiction. But in the past ...

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Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to wonder whether it was worth it. Desperate for another option, he found a ...

A very different kind of "hog farm" is being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited pigs in a $110 million pathogen-free facility to harvest kidneys and ...

These were promising results for the field of xenotransplantation, the transplantation of animal organs into humans. Hisashi Sahara, an associate professor at Kagoshima University who leads the ...

The researchers also reintroduced microbes to the mice after antibiotics through fecal microbial transplants. The rationale ...

Once this technique was mastered, solid organs could be transplanted from one animal to another. The focus on the biologic aspects of transplantation has been primarily concerned with the immune ...

A leading expert on human gene engineering has warned of what might happen if advances in the area are not brought under ...