On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

Surgeon Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin is a leader in the novel field of xenotransplantation—transferring organs from one species to another—in his case, from pigs to humans.

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...

Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...

In 2013, scientists performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also been successful. But whilst those organs ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...