After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

Many patients with organ failure, tethered to a dialysis machine four hours every other day, see in these small pigs hope for ...

The scientists who created Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, today said the prospect of pigs' organs being transplanted into humans had moved one step closer following successful gene ...

(AP) - An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting. “I ...

He’ll be the first in a three-patient study and is the second person currently living in the world with a pig kidney. The team at Massachusetts General used an organ developed by Cambridge ...