Several groups are vying to be the first to transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into people as part of a clinical trial. One of the contenders is a team in China that last year was the ...

A protein implant could cure blindness, according to a new study. Researchers found no one who had the operation was still blind 2 years later and three people who were blind ended up with 20:20 ...

Burn specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital are the first in the world to successfully use live-cell, genetically engineered pig skin to temporarily close a burn wound in a human patient — but ...

Steve Hazelbeck is a Flying Pig runner who is hoping to continue beating the odds.Diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma in 2007, he was given barely two years to live.To battle through multiple skin cancer ...