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.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are on the waitlist for a potentially life-saving transplantation, ...

Surgeons at New York University have reportedly reached another milestone in making pig-to-human organ transplants a reality. They now claim to have transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A new pilot study published in Nature Communications has explored the possibility of creating bionic organs to replace failing human organs. The idea ...

Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health researchers have successfully created chimeric embryos containing a combination of human and pig cells. When transferred into surrogate pig mothers, the ...

In a world first, scientists have grown human kidneys inside pig embryos – a breakthrough hailed as a major step towards the unlimited production of organs suitable for life-saving transplants. The ...