A new clinical trial will soon test if a pig liver can help people whose own livers have suddenly stopped working.

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

The new study will attach the pig liver to up to 20 patients in a bid to give their own livers time to regenerate. View on ...

Massachusetts-based researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver ...

A 19-year-old St. Albans man is in custody after police say he “intentionally” hit a 16-year-old with his car, sending the teen to the hospital with serious injuries. St. Albans police say ...

with the ultimate goal of selling pig organs for transplantation into humans. Routine pig-human organ transplants are years away, but recent scientific advances are breaking down barriers that ...

Kidneys have been a big question mark. Recent work reveals that these important organs could face more trouble than previously assumed, including a higher risk of stones and lasting damage. Several ...

An investigation confirmed the patient contracted rabies through the organ. A Michigan resident has died of rabies after apparently undergoing an organ transplant, health officials said.

Animal organs don’t typically last inside human bodies—our immune systems will reject them as “foreign.” But a few companies are creating pigs with a series of gene edits that make their ...

Pigs have emerged as the best animal organ donors, with several living patients in the United States having received pig kidneys or hearts in the last few years. Livers have proved trickier -- and ...

Dr. Carl Schmidt, a deputy coroner with the Lucas County Coroner's Office, confirmed to WHIO that the infected organ was a kidney. A Michigan HHS investigation also found this to be the case.