In a scientific “first,” a tiny heart structure composed of human cells has been successfully grown within a pig embryo.

Scientists tracked how human immune cells attack pig kidneys after transplant—and found a way to fight back using precision ...

But there's a problem, and a big one at that: The body naturally wants to reject any tissue it knows it didn't manufacture.

A team of scientists from France and the United States has taken an important step toward understanding how the human body ...

And it could not be better timed—the first US-based clinical trials of pig kidney transplantation into living humans begin ...

SCIENTISTS have raised “urgent concerns” over new viruses discovered in bats which have the potential to spill over into ...

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Lai’s team has previously grown early-stage human kidneys in pig embryos that survived for up to a month in pregnant sows. He wanted to see whether similar results were possible for the heart.

BOSTON (WCVB) — Tim Andrews, one of four people to ever get a pig kidney transplant, was on an operating table five months ago. But on Wednesday night, he threw out the first pitch at Fenway ...

Wednesday marked 137 days with his new kidney. Andrews is the longest-living recipient of a genetically edited pig organ and the only person in the United States with a pig kidney. To honor his ...

Pigs have long been known, sometimes celebrated, as among the most intelligent of farm animals. Now, a new Dartmouth-led study provides evidence that pigs were first domesticated from wild boars ...