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. Dave Ayares, President ...

KELLY: But ethicists point to the many, many unanswered questions, like what if pig viruses are accidentally transmitted to humans? Is it right to breed pigs just to slaughter them and harvest ...

The organ was provided by the pharmaceutical company eGenesis, which breeds pigs that have been genetically engineered to carry certain human genes and to lack a particular set of pig genes that ...

In an effort to address its ongoing organ donor shortage crisis, Japan has started breeding the first pigs genetically engineered for human organ transplants. This significant success, announced ...

The findings are the latest to suggest that animal-to-human transplantation ... They transplanted a liver from a Bama miniature pig—a breed that’s commonly used in research—that had six ...

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

For more than 20 years, Revivicor in Blacksburg, Virginia has been conducting research to turn pig-to-human transplantation from science fiction to life-saving medical care. In the United States ...