At the International Xenotransplantation Association’s recent conference, scientists expressed optimism at closing a persistent shortage of donor organs, The New York Times reported Nov. 12. The ...

Thousands of people a year die while waiting for an organ transplant. Early experiments in xenotransplantation are raising hopes this could soon be a thing of the past. In the US, 100,000 people are ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- The ghostly form floating in a large jar had been the robust reddish-brown of a healthy organ just hours before. Now it's semitranslucent, white tubes like branches on a tree ...

A creature that is part human, part animal; this sounds like something out of a mythological sci-fi, or a blatant hoax. But thanks to some genius scientists, a creature like this is now a reality.

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 ...

Doctors in New York have managed to keep a brain-dead man in a state of sort of suspended animation for more than a month after removing his kidneys and replacing them with one from a pig. A ...

Dr. Jonathan Reisman holds up a chicken heart and a pig heart for comparison at Jet Wine Bar in South Philadelphia, where he gave a talk on organ meats during the bar's Offal Wine and Dine event.