As thousands of people await a lifesaving heart, scientists are racing to buy them more time. A promising advance from scientists in Germany offers a potential solution.

He was too fragile to undergo transplant surgery. The thought was that if they could implant a total artificial heart, it ...

This surgery is part of a growing effort to use genetically altered pig organs to help deal with a shortage of human organs ...

In the United States, obesity is estimated to cause between 280,000 and 374,000 deaths each year and more than $170 billion ...

As thousands of patients worldwide continue to wait for lifesaving heart transplants, scientists in Germany have introduced a ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

Heart failure, a type of heart disease that results from cardiovascular disease complications, is a growing concern in the ...

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant ... heart, kidney, cornea, skin and bone transplants. Wang says the team also recently transplanted a pig kidney into a ...