Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Slayman underwent his transplant in March, receiving a genetically modified pig kidney. (Getty Images) (Owen Franken via ...

Tech advances already show a future of testing in which we might not have to suffer and die while waiting for systems that ...

The successful transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney into a human patient has raised hopes that cutting-edge technology can make pig organs safe for other transplant patients. Towana Looney, a ...

Organoids, organs-on-a-chip, and machine learning technologies have improved dramatically in recent years, but have they come far enough to replace animal research? Additionally, despite attempts to ...

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 ...

Towana Looney lived for more than four months with a kidney from a pig instead of her own damaged ones. But in early April, her body ‒ which had tolerated the kidney longer than any human had ever ...

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.Pigs have ...

NEW YORK ‒ If records are meant to be broken, Towana Looney is grateful to be a record-breaker. Looney has been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead of her own. The longest anyone has ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that has not deposited records to the Records Office. Microphysiological systems (MPS) are in vitro platforms composed of 3-D constructs (including ...

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.Pigs have ...