We’ve reached a new frontier in organ transplantation. In a medical first, scientists announced this week that they successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human ...

Human head transplants are also known as cephalosomatic anastomosis, and at the moment, are not actually possible and likely won't be before 2030. Some researchers have tested a human head transplant ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a human. The 39-year-old patient was a brain ...

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(CNN) — Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was ...

Chinese researchers have developed a new method to preserve tissues at cold temperatures, an advance that could extend the ...

The audience with participants in an event organized by the Italian National Transplant Network took place March 26 at the ...

Always keep the good of the patient as your guiding principle, suggested Pope Leo XIV on Thursday in the Vatican when meeting ...