Humans ferried pigs across thousands of Pacific islands for millennia, reshaping ecosystems and blurring the line between ...

UNDATED HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo tells us why humans seem to thrive with at least one type of transplant from pigs. We are talking about tissue transplants, and from hernias to plastic ...

A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human recipient who had been declared brain dead, according to research published ...

The xenotransplantation comes on the heels of recent transplants of pig hearts and kidneys into medical patients. Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale ...