“Is this organ really going to work like a human organ? So far it’s looking like it is,” said Dr. Robert Montgomery with NYU Langone Health Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has ...

• A pig kidney with just one genetic modification functioned in a human for 61 days before being removed as planned, more than doubling previous survival records for animal-to-human transplants. • The ...

Doctors are exploring how to use animal organs but keep them outside people's bodies. Surgeon Abraham Shaked thinks he has probably carried out more than 2,500 liver transplants. But in December 2023, ...

New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs.

Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients.

PROVIDENCE − In 2026, will you be able to choose organic natural reduction in Rhode Island, also known as human composting, for what happens to your body after you die? After a first hearing on Feb.