About 17 people die each day in the US waiting for an organ transplant — 6200 per year. And for the more than 10,000 Americans on the waiting list for a liver transplant, the future of medicine may ...

As of end-2024, kidney patients on the transplant waiting list had to wait an average of nine years to get a new organ.

2024 marked a big year for the field of xenotransplantation, with surgical teams at several health systems completing historic procedures that could pave the way for broader adoption of ...

If a pig embryo infused with human cells truly became something close enough to count as a member of the human species, then current research regulations would dictate it’s owed human-level regard.

One strange phenomenon that’s gaining doctors’ attention is the way in which organ transplants can change your personality. A ...

Whistleblowers have placed a North Jersey nonprofit that collects and distributes human organs and tissues under a spotlight ...

Scientists have announced a breakthrough in the race to address a catastrophic organ shortage. It involves a wild mashup of human and sheep cells.

Chinese scientists have performed what is thought to be the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver segment into a person with cancer. Surgeons reported that the transplanted section of ...

The human body is a remarkably resilient thing, as many case studies of people surviving without organs tell us ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure had already been charted. Yet recent research suggests that even in the ...