How a family's choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants
A sister’s choice to donate her brother’s body for research is helping doctors learn how to one day use pig organs to sa...
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Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplants
New York surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally
Swedish appeals court ups surgeon's sentence for 'harm' during experimental windpipe transplants
A Swedish appeals court has upped a prison sentence for an Italian surgeon for causing bodily harm during experimental s...
Sweden trial starts in stem-cell windpipe transplants case
A surgeon who made headlines in 2011 for carrying out the world’s first stem-cell windpipe transplants at Sweden’s leadi...
Panel urges changes to make US organ transplants more fair
An influential scientific advisory panel says the U.S. transplant system needs an overhaul to stop wasting organs and gi...
Pig-to-human transplants come a step closer with new test
Scientists have temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work
US proposes new rules to increase organ transplants
The United States government is proposing new rules to increase organ transplants
