EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Animal Pharm” on Sunday, May 18, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN. There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re ...

Biotech company eGenesis recently announced its implanted a pig kidney into a second human patient. This animal-to-human organ transplant, or xenotransplant, was made possible through advancements in ...

Novel research led by Brazilian scientists describes the immune system's reactions in detail in the first living patient to ...

Transplanting animal organs into humans, known as xenotransplantation, has long felt like science fiction. But in the past few years, several such procedures have taken place using organs from ...

WASHINGTON: A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplant, at a crucial point in the quest to prove if animals organs really might save human lives.

(CNN) — A genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man and functioned for nine days, according to a newly published report. There has been some recent success transplanting pig ...

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 ...