The New York City doctor behind a groundbreaking pig kidney transplant predicts surgeons will be able to perform the same procedure with livers, lungs and hearts in the near future — bringing hope to ...

Smithfield Foods — a major pork producer — created a bioscience unit to focus on supplying pig parts for medical uses. The company’s ultimate goal is to sell pig organs for human transplants, reports ...

It’s time to go whole hog in Lost Recipes as we looking back on the many pig parts people cook — beyond beloved bacon, Boston butts, ham and pork chops. The saying is that everything in the pig but ...

A new study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham shows how pig organs could soon be used routinely for life-saving transplants in humans. In a new study, researchers and surgeons at the ...

Doctors at NYU Langone Health have taken another step toward making pig organs available for transplant, by successfully implanting pig hearts into two newly deceased people. Brain-dead patients can ...

July 12 (Reuters) - Surgeons at New York University (NYU) have successfully transplanted genetically-engineered pig hearts into two brain-dead people, researchers said on Tuesday, moving a step closer ...