A suspicious garbage bag found at a car wash in East Hanover contained animal organs, not human remains, authorities said ...

The test was a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. From left: Zoe A. Stewart-Lewis, Robert A. Montgomery, Bonnie E. Lonze and Jeffrey Stern.

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Health Canada is looking to the public for guidance on the issue of transplanting animal organs and cells into humans. It held a conference in Saskatoon to discuss xenotransplantation.

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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.

It’s exceedingly risky to test bioengineered animal organs in a living human. If the engineering doesn’t work and the body rejects the organ, the person could be dead within literally minutes ...

Such trials could bring xenotransplantation — the use of animal organs in human recipients — into the clinic. The recipient of the pig kidney is a 62-year-old man with end-stage renal failure ...

Japanese scientists are expecting to be granted approval to grow human organs in animals and then harvest them within a year You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

Biotech Companies Set To Profit From Animal-Organ Transplants SIDEBAR: Alternate Paths to Xenotransplantation The tantalizing possibility of using a potentially unlimited supply of organs from animals ...