HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Living organ donors are becoming an increasingly important part of the organ procurement process and now animal organs and machines that tune-up marginal organs may play a ...

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Israeli scientists have successfully grown several animal organs without fertilizing an egg, raising the possibility that “synthetic” animals can be grown from stem cells without using donor eggs or ...

New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs.

Advances in transplant technologycould pave the way for the use of animal organs in people some day — which could help solve the problem of the donor organ shortage, researchers say. In a new study, ...

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? Alex Rubinsteyn, a University of ...

scientists have taken a small but important step in the quest to one day use animal organs for human transplant. In this unique experiment, dr robert Montgomery and a team attached to genetically ...

New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs.

WASHINGTON: A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplant, at a crucial ...