Young genetically altered pigs walk past a ball in their pens at the Revivicor research farm in Blacksburg, Virginia on November 20, 2024 - Copyright AFP Andrew ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with bioethicist and professor at Lehigh University, Michael Gusmano, about the ethics of using cloned, genetically modified pigs for human organ transplants. Like a page ...

We’ve reached a new frontier in organ transplantation. In a medical first, scientists announced this week that they successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human ...

Surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old man living with end-stage kidney disease. The recipient, Richard Slayman, is recovering well and is expected to be discharged ...

On a farm in the southern US state of Virginia, David Ayares and his research teams are breeding genetically modified pigs to transplant their organs into human patients. Revivicor, the biotech ...

Since 2021, several US surgeons have successfully transplanted genetically modified pig kidneys and hearts into humans, most of them supplied by Revivicor. Another key provider is the biotech firm ...