A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it ...

It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig organ, marking another step forward in the burgeoning field of xenotransplantation, or the practice of transplanting animal organs into humans.

When piglets don't get enough milk in the first weeks of life, the chances of them thriving dramatically decline. In the U.S.

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development.

When children lose their baby teeth, there is an adult set already growing beneath the gums, ready to emerge. But if we lose ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal.

A UK factory farm has reported a pig being infected with human flu, a stark reminder of the 'wet markets' that are blamed for the Covid pandemic ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment in the ...

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body ...

The guinea pig has long been used for studies in developmental biology and is very similar to humans in terms of general physiology. It is also the only small animal that, in females, goes through ...