Looney’s vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality. Only four other Americans have received hugely experimental transplants of gene-edited pig ...

Tufts University researchers took material from human and pig teeth and were able to grow a tooth-like structure. They hope ...

More recently, early-stage human kidneys have even been grown in pig bellies. The world of bioengineering isn’t for the faint of heart. Much of this tinkering is done in the service of one day ...

Researchers have developed a way to grow human-sized tooth-like tissues in the mouths of pigs – this may be a lot to chew on, but the results could lead to new biological tooth substitutes that ...

Towana Looney of Alabama is 'going strong and feeling great' after a pig kidney transplant. No one has lived longer with an ...

A pig gave birth to a “mutant” piglet that let out a cry that resembled that of a human child. The “human-like” piglet was the fourth in a litter of eight. None of its siblings are ...

Scientists have experimented for centuries with using parts from animals to improve human health, but the technology has leapt ahead recently with advances in gene editing and immunology.

But the human body does not take kindly to foreign parts … especially those from a swine. It will reject the pig heart valve because the valve has incompatible pig cells on its lining.

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the hospital performed the world’s first such surgery. A Mass General ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable human organs. More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list ...