The patient lived with part of a pig liver for 38 days before surgeons removed it, surviving 171 total days after the ...

Voices of the Herd' asks us to consider what it is like to be a cow, a highly intelligent and deeply emotional sentient ...

As a kid of the 1970s, Mary Roach sat in front of the TV watching “The Six Million Dollar Man” promise a techno-rebirth. “We can rebuild him,” the narrator intoned. “Better than he was before. Better.

Part lion, part goat, part serpent, the Chimera was a terrifying, fire-breathing monster capable of decimating cities, according to Greek mythology. Today, the term “chimera” has a much more ...

More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for an organ transplant. Most of them need a new kidney. This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a big step towards the future of the ...

Despite how it sounds, a xenotransplant isn't something from the latest Alien movie. It's an increasingly credible science: the transplantation of animal organs into humans. The field took one of its ...

Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the next step: larger-scale clinical trials. eGenesis, one of the biotech ...