Transplanting animal organs into humans is becoming more common, but these procedures remain rare and have yet to significantly extend patients’ lives. Amid an ongoing organ shortage ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

The need for transplant organs is immense and growing. Some scientists think animal organs might be a good way to increase the supply. Advances in cloning and gene editing have led to breakthroughs.

The tantalizing possibility of using a potentially unlimited supply of organs from animals to replace damaged human ones -- through xenotransplantation -- has, in just the past few years, jumped the ...

But new “organs-on-chips” technology is emulating ... Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research through animal testing—which often doesn’t translate to humans—or in a ...

There is growing hope that organs from animals can help ease the global shortage of donor organs. Research into the transfer of animal organs to humans, known as xenotransplantation, has been ...

Many patients with organ failure, tethered to a dialysis machine four hours every other day, see in these small pigs hope for ...

Cells are the smallest unit of life. Cells in multicellular plants and animals are arranged into tissues, organs and organ systems. Cells. Tissues. Organs. Organ systems. And the organism itself.