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

Renowned surgeon and humanitarian Dr. Robert Montgomery has revolutionized organ transplantation, expanding access and ...

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

Louisiana has become home to numerous invasive species, some of them wreaking havoc on the state's environment. Here are the ...

Researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains tend to infect birds. But the potential for influenza A viruses that ...

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development.

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 ...

Pigs bred for animal-to-human organ transplant experiments are usually genetically modified to reduce the chance that the ...

A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...

An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.

If you need something to perk up your mood, this adorable video that Homestead Hacks shared of an adorable baby pig loving up ...