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

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it ...

The US Food and Drug Administration allows doctors to transplant organs from pigs into humans under what’s commonly known as “compassionate use,” which permits use of an experimental therapy ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment in the ...

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...

Are we close to generating a bioengineered human heart? Camila Hochman-Mendez weighs in on recent advances and remaining ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

Genetically engineered pig hearts can potentially serve as a temporary life-saving support for critically ill infants ...

Looney's relative success could lead to more procedures for alternative organ transplants. An Alabama woman is back on dialysis after receiving a groundbreaking pig kidney transplant that her body ...

The local biotech whose technology has already been used for pig-to-human organ transplants is now bringing its first program into the clinic. Cambridge biotech behind pig organ transplants to ...