Organ transplantation has a supply problem, and the proposed future keeps getting more science-fictional: gene-edited pigs supplying replacement parts for humans. Many believe xenotransplantation ...

A 53-year-old clinically dead man has become the first person to receive two kidneys and a whole liver from a genetically ...

Chinese scientists have succeeded in growing kidneys containing human cells in pig embryos, a world first that could one day help address organ donation shortages. But the development, described in a ...

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 ...

“Is this organ really going to work like a human organ? So far it’s looking like it is,” said Dr. Robert Montgomery with NYU Langone Health Kimberlee Speakman is a Writer-Reporter on the News team at ...

He received pig kidneys that had undergone 10 gene modifications – four that knocked out pig genes that can cause rejection, and insertions of six human genes that prevent coagulation. Over the course ...

Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them.

A Chinese research team has successfully performed the world’s first simultaneous transplantation of two genetically modified ...

Although brain-dead organ donors have routinely been maintained on life-support until recipients of their donor organs could be identified, UAB is now the first to publish the results of this novel ...

UNDATED HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo tells us why humans seem to thrive with at least one type of transplant from pigs. We are talking about tissue transplants, and from hernias to plastic ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. At the moment, there are only a few options for dental replacements, such as dentures, titanium implants, or leaving the gap completely blank. But what if ...