There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re commonplace now, but the practice was considered experimental only a half-century ago.

CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores how pigs could help address the human organ shortage through xenotransplantation. Learn how both a pig’s similarities and differences make their organs a good match for ...

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One mother’s decision to donate her late daughter’s organs gave a young girl a second chance, forming a bond no one expected.

The story of transplants has always been one of altruism. After all, organs can be neither sold nor purchased. They can only ...

CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains the science of xenotransplantation, which is the procedure of ...

Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to ...

The researchers also reintroduced microbes to the mice after antibiotics through fecal microbial transplants. The rationale ...

Bioengineers at Queen Mary University of London have taken a significant step forward in the development of laboratory-based ...

Transplanting animal organs into humans, known as xenotransplantation, has long felt like science fiction. But in the past ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced it plans to phase out animal testing in the development of monoclonal ...

Organ transplant is a potentially lifesaving medical intervention, but there is a critical lack of donor organs. Even in a wealthy country like the US, there are about 100,000 people on the waiting l ...