Even though organ transplants are life-saving, due to blood-type compatibility, finding one can be tricky, but new research ...

When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

Tim Andrews, 67, had the organ removed on Oct. 23 because of its declining function, according to Mass General Brigham.

Tim Andrews was the fourth patient in the United States to receive a pig kidney transplant. He will now return to dialysis ...

A groundbreaking medical milestone was achieved with the first successful transplantation of a genetically engineered pig liver into a living human. The 71-year-old recipient survived for nearly six ...

A research team led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and collaborating with the Biomedical Research Institute of A Coruña (INIBIC), as well as other international research ...

Mr Andrews contacted the medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH) that had carried out the operation. On January ...

Surgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with an incurable cancerous tumor, and it functioned for more ...

Surgeons removed a genetically modified pig kidney from a 67-year-old man last week, nearly nine months after he received the ...

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the procedure, and 38 of those days were with the pig organ in place – a first ...

A Kentucky woman expecting medicine in a package got a big surprise when she opened it up and found human body parts.