Researchers have developed a way to grow human-sized tooth-like tissues in the mouths of pigs – this may be a lot to chew on, ...

The toothlike structures represent a step toward bioengineered replacements for dental implants, say researchers behind the ...

FDA clears United Therapeutics for human trials of pig-to-human kidney transplants. Trial involves gene-edited pig kidneys ...

The paper reports observations of spontaneous synaptic activity, metabolism, and reduced cell death in the pig brains, but global brain activity was absent. “The new technology opens up opportunities ...

Genesis announced that it has completed its second successful human transplant with a genetically engineered pig kidney, with ...

These improvements were due to a surprising finding — proliferation of endogenous heart muscle cells in the pig hearts. This is particularly noteworthy because shortly after birth mammalian heart ...

Injecting infarcted pig hearts with specially bioengineered cells significantly decreased the infarct area and improved heart function, showing possible clinical relevance “It is widely ...

Human skin cells have been reprogrammed into heart valve cells and then used to successfully transplant a pig heart valve into a rodent, led by the research of a Northeastern University professor.

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...

2) designed to use renewable sources for the insulin-producing cells; e.g., xenogeneic islets (predominantly from pigs), cells induced to differentiate from embryonic stem (ES) cells (or the ...