Each year, thousands of people in the U.S. die waiting for donated organs. A new book shares how organs from other species could change that.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a human. The 39-year-old patient was a brain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for almost ...

A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

A genetically modified pig kidney has survived and functioned in a human recipient for 61 days, setting a record for this type of procedure and offering new hope to the nearly one million Americans ...

A historic medical breakthrough has brought xenotransplantation—transplanting animal organs into humans—closer to reality than ever before. In this episode, we explore the science behind the first ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants — with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Monika Piotrowska, University at Albany, State University of New York (THE ...

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for almost half a year. The 71-year-old man's own liver was irreversibly scarred by ...