More than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a new heart, kidney or some other organ. Many will die waiting. Some scientists see new hope for these people in organs from pigs that ...

In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic ...

In what’s being hailed a scientific “tour de force,” American researchers have succeeded in creating human-pig chimera ...

AI-trained robot surgeons have successfully performed complex operations on pig organs without human help—paving the way for fully automated surgery trials on humans within a decade, researchers say.

C and stored in a freezer for months have been successfully rewarmed and shown to work again for the first time, say ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and ...

Ohio's six-month freeze on new Medicaid home care and hospice providers is set to expire Nov. 14, raising concerns among disabled residents who face gaps when aides leave. South Dakota voters will ...

The newly established Department of Xenotransplantation Sciences at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, led by Dr. Shikhar Tripathi, ...

Growing human organs inside pigs moved forward in labs, but not in Washington. That divide explains why gene-edited pig kidneys are now transplanted into people, while federally funded efforts to grow ...

A team of doctors at NYU Langone transplanted a pig kidney into a brain-dead patient and reversed its rejection twice during the 61-day study. Joe Carrotta / NYU Langone Facing a shortage of organs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While research on human-pig chimeras is on an indefinite pause, xenotransplantation is moving ahead. wildpixel/iStock via Getty ...