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

Sea pigs live on the sea floor, between 3,300 to 19,500 feet (1 ... Their bodies are so small that some of their organs — including parts of the gut and reproductive systems — are stuffed into their ...

Researchers caught a close-up video of a flying sea pig (aka, a sea cucumber), and it has what looks like 50 tiny hands.

The human immune system immediately recognizes those animal organs and the animal tissue as foreign and attacks. Advertising So if you just took a pig’s organ, any old pig organ, and stuck it in a ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig ...

Looney's transplant was part of a larger effort to provide genetically engineered pig organs to help solve the human organ shortage. A handful of other patients have received pig kidneys and hearts.