A groundbreaking study has shown that pig hearts could keep critically ill babies alive while they wait for a transplant.

Porcine kidney transplant into the body of a brain-dead woman at New York University Langone Medical Center in 2023. Joe ...

Globally, people get animal protein mostly from chickens, with pigs and cattle in second and third place. A 2023 report ...

Organoids, miniaturized, stem cell-derived versions of human organs, are revolutionizing biomedical research by offering human-specific models for disease study and drug testing. While they have ...

An NYU Langone Health patient lived with a pig kidney for 130 days before she experienced an organ rejection. On April 4, the ...

For decades, scientists and surgeons around the world have been trying to solve the organ donor crisis. The answer could be ...

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

A team from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is the first in the world to study the use of genetically engineered pig hearts for infants waiting for heart transplantation.  The study was led by John ...

PANJWANI: I’m Haya Panjwani. On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauren Neergaard and Shelby Lum, ...

Each model has differing advantages and drawbacks ... However, whether this is attributable to differing triggers for erythropoietin production in the pig kidney, reduced response in the NHP host, or ...

“For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement. HealthDay News — Doctors have removed a ...