Each year, thousands of people in the U.S. die waiting for donated organs. A new book shares how organs from other species ...

A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified pig liver, says the team that conducted the surgery. The pig organ filtered ...

For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person, doctors in Boston said Thursday. Richard Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, Mass., who is suffering ...

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