For the first time, scientists in China have transplanted a pig's lung into a human, marking a bold step forward in the quest to solve the chronic shortage of donor organs. This case involved the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they're ready for the ...

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Pigs have ...

Researchers have used the gene-editing technique CRISPR to modify the genome of pigs in order to eliminate genes that code for a family of viruses that could infect humans. We wouldn’t get the viruses ...