I dressed up like a half man/half pig and spent the night in an animal cage scaring visitors walking through the new Zoo ...

Background: Porcine genome editing has revolutionized xenotransplantation, recently enabling the first pig-to-human heart xenotransplants. However, the xeno-immune response in heart xenografts remains ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm ...

Humanoid robot investments face skepticism as industry leader Rodney Brooks warns current designs may never deliver.

Doctors just blurred the line between species with a radical transplant. Could this be the key to immortality?

In a landmark move, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given biotech company eGenesis the go-ahead to conduct a broader human trial in pig-to-human kidney transplants, marking a significant ...

More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for an organ transplant. Most of them need a new kidney. This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a big step towards the future of the ...

Despite how it sounds, a xenotransplant isn't something from the latest Alien movie. It's an increasingly credible science: the transplantation of animal organs into humans. The field took one of its ...

(CNN) — Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the next step: larger-scale clinical trials. eGenesis, one of the ...

(CNN) — Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the next step: larger-scale clinical trials. (CNN) — Scientists ...