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 ...

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 ...

A US woman who lived with a pig kidney for 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors have announced. Towana Looney from Alabama is recovering ...

But there was a catch: Looney wouldn’t receive a human kidney. Instead, a pig’s kidney would be surgically implanted inside the 53-year-old. The procedure of transferring organs from an animal ...