Some scientists see new hope for these people in organs from pigs that have been engineered to work within the human body. Such species-to-species transplants, called xenotransplantation ...

Japanese researchers said they have produced three piglets cloned from a pig that was genetically modified to prevent rejection of its organs in transplants to humans. PorMedTec Co., a Kawasaki ...

where they are raised for research in human organ transplants. Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans.

Then doctors at NYU Langone Health devised a novel one-two punch: Implant a mechanical pump to keep her heart beating and days later transplant a kidney from a genetically modified pig.