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.

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Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them.

NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Miller-Duffy was dazed and grieving. Her brother suddenly collapsed and days later was brain-dead. Now she faced a tough question: Would she donate his body for research? That’s ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Surgeons in China successfully transplanted a pig lung into the body of a brain dead patient for the first time. While the organ eventually succumbed ...

A world-first transplant in China has demonstrated that multiple gene-edited pig organs can function together inside a human body, marking a major step forward for transplant medicine.