D printing skin, bone, and even working organs could change transplant medicine and medical research — but how, exactly, does ...

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

Northwell, which cares for about 50% of the state’s pediatric patients, has been planning to add a pediatric heart transplant program as the sixth to this list for years, according to Kleinmahon.

As Richelle Murray swims laps in her local pool, she can breathe more easily than she has for a long time. "I feel free. I love it, life is good," she said. The 63-year-old spent decades living ...

Your average daily heart rate is a useful metric; so is your daily step count. Combining the two might be even better. By Matt Richtel Many people use a smartwatch to monitor their cardiovascular ...

In contrast to the kidney or the heart, the function of the liver ... a crucial temporary solution for liver failure patients The pig liver transplant entailed massive gene modification to ensure ...

conducted the transplant, retaining the recipient’s own liver to simulate support therapy for patients with clinical liver failure. “We observed that the transplanted gene-edited pig liver can ...

Before transplant ... findings suggest that gene-modified pig livers can survive and function in humans, potentially serving as a bridge therapy for patients with liver failure, the investigators ...

A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant, health officials said. The patient had the organ transplanted at a hospital in Ohio in December and ...

FILE - This undated electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows rabies virions, dark and bullet-shaped, within an infected tissue sample. (F. A ...