When Mary Shelley publishedFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818, she wasn’t just writing a gothic horror novel—she was laying the foundations for science fiction. Her tale of a scientist ...

August, Viet Duc University Hospital announced that its doctors successfully performed Vietnam’s first-ever combined ...

As neural implant technology and A.I. advance at breakneck speeds, do we need a new set of rights to protect our most ...

Andy Wright remembers the morning he woke up from anesthesia after his liver transplant.His wife, Carie Wright, was beside ...

In A Nutshell • A pig kidney with just one genetic modification functioned in a human for 61 days before being removed as ...

In two studies published Thursday, researchers discovered why transplanted pig organs were being rejected from human patients and how to reverse it.

There are more candidates on the waitlist for a liver transplant than there are available organs, yet about half the time a ...

There are more candidates on the waitlist for a liver transplant than there are available organs, yet about half the time a ...

A study of a pig kidney that flourished for two months in a brain-dead recipient shows that an approach developed by Columbia University immunologists ...

Researchers have uncovered and then overcome an obstacle that has led to the failure of pioneering efforts in ...

Doctors at New York University say two new studies show that they are a significant step closer to making cross-species ...

The successful treatment in a brain-dead man could be used in living people, to prevent the immune system attacking donor organs.