For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

Turns out, many scientists have been working on growing the organs of one animal inside ... methods as the mouse-rat hybrid, scientists have produced the first human-pig hybrid embryo, which ...

Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday that Tim Andrews recovered well enough after the Jan. 25 transplant to leave ...

Looney’s vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality. Only four other ...

and specializes in studying hybridization in animals. Uri Bram, in his delightful Atoms vs Bits essay, says the idea that humans are chimp-pig hybrids is worth considering.: If you've ever been to ...

Researchers may one day overcome the problem of organ shortages for transplantation by growing spare human organs in other animals. A group led by scientists ... they report having grown the first ...

Young genetically altered pigs ... into human patients. Revivicor, the biotech company Ayares leads, is at the forefront of xenotransplantation research — the implantation of animal organs ...