Doctors just blurred the line between species with a radical transplant. Could this be the key to immortality?

Precision is everything when it comes to microsurgery. A few microns—smaller than the width of a human hair—can mean the ...

Surgeons think the first transplantation of a pig lung in a human is an exciting step forward for the field, but many ...

Specific genetic modifications allowed the lung to survive the body’s hyperacute rejection, where the body attacks the organ, within a few hours.

A surgical procedure that drastically reduces stomach size has become the leading weight loss operation in the United States, with approximately 150,000 Americans undergoing the transformation ...

With Health Ministry okay, Tel Aviv University prof will perform surgery that will mark the first time pieces of spine are ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. With available human organs constantly ...