An Alabama woman who is the only living recipient of a pig organ transplant became the longest living person with a ...

Looney’s vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality. Only four other ...

Towana Looney of Alabama has become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant. The 53-year-old woman passed the ...

A growing number of researchers are mastering the creation of organoids: simplified, miniature versions of real human organs. These structures aren't being harvested to make Frankenstein's monster.

offering cash in exchange for an organ, usually a kidney. Like other forms of illicit human trafficking, some organ donors are recruited under false pretenses – for example, the promise of a ...

Given the shortage of donor organs, scientists have tried for years to make animal-to-human transplants work. But "now they can edit pig genes", there's real hope – as long as the editing can ...

Jose Israel Teran Jr., 21, is in the Bexar County jail on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and for the purchase and sale of human organs. A judge set Teran's bail at $225,000.

Humimic Biosystems, which formed in 2023 as a spinoff company, is focused on developing models that mimic human organs — including the heart, lungs and brain — for wide-ranging applications.

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 ...