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 ...

For the first time, scientists say they have frozen whole pig kidneys into a ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota managed to freeze test pig kidneys down to -238 degrees Fahrenheit (-150 degrees ...

A new editorial in Transplant International highlights the pivotal and often overlooked contributions of European scientists ...

A new review argues that sugar-based signaling through Siglec receptors and complement Factor H forms a hidden regulatory ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A kidney waits to be prepared for transplantation. In the United States alone, over 800,000 patients have had their lives saved or ...

We’ve reached a new frontier in organ transplantation. In a medical first, scientists announced this week that they successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human ...

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 ...

The organ seemed to function as well as a human kidney transplant, and the doctors did not see any signs of rejection. "We learned more from that than anything else that we've done," Dr. Robert ...

By Gift Chapi Odekina, Abuja The House of Representatives has passed for second reading a bill seeking to establish a ...