Most animal, plant and fungal cells contain organelles called mitochondria. These descendants of a primordial bacterial ...

On Nov. 25, a team of clinicians at the New York City-based health system successfully transplanted UKidney, a 10-gene-edited pig kidney into Towana Looney, 53. Ms. Looney was on a transplant waiting ...

Previous attempts in the U.S. included two heart transplants and two kidney transplants from pigs, but none of the recipients ...

The 53-year-old woman who received the genetically modified animal organ is the ideal recipient to push science forward.

Alabama's Towana Looney has become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, celebrating more than two months ...

United Therapeutics, a Maryland and North Carolina corporation known for pig organ transplant work, is looking to build a ...

Four other Americans, who have undergone the highly experimental procedure of receiving gene-edited pig organ transplants, ...

UK Health Care performed a record number of liver transplants last year. What’s driving the spike: KY has one of the top-five ...

January 26 marks the National Transplantation Day in Poland. Nearly 2,200 organs were transplanted from deceased donors last ...

Towana Looney's vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality.

Unique protocol extends heart transplant survival in nonhuman primates without immune suppression, addressing organ rejection in groundbreaking research.