Genetically modified pig organs may be the answer to the shortage of human organs for those in dire need of a transplant.

ABC News’ Morgan Norwood and Dr. Darien Sutton look at the latest advancements in animal-to-human organ transplantation that ...

Attempts at animal-to-human transplants failed for decades. Now scientists can edit pig genes, trying to bridge the species ...

Towana Looney, a 53-year-old Alabama woman, is now free from years of dialysis after receiving an experimental pig kidney ...

People worried they'll never get a scarce human transplant want to know when they might get a pig kidney instead.

In just a few years, a handful of surgeries in US hospitals have brought animal-to-human transplants, or xenotransplantation, out of the realm of science fiction.

A US farm breeds pigs for human kidney transplants On a farm in the southern US state of Virginia, David Ayares and his research teams are breeding genetically modified pigs to transplant their organs ...

The 53-year-old woman who received the genetically modified animal organ is the ideal recipient to push science forward.

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 ...

Four people who received pig organs died within two months of transplant. Now an Alabama woman hopes for a better outcome.

Doctors performed the first xenotransplantion, or the use of animal organs in human transplant procedures, in 2021. NYU Langone Health has now performed seven such procedures, many of them in ...