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.

Here’s a perennial health problem facing humanity: We don’t have enough organs for those in need. In the United States, more than 100,000 people are on the waitlist for a new organ; every day, around ...

“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 ...

Doctors in New York have managed to keep a brain-dead man in a state of sort of suspended animation for more than a month after removing his kidneys and replacing them with one from a pig. A ...

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They had placed four pig carcasses in the searing southern Arizona desert about 10 miles from the U.S.-Mexican border. Six days later, one — what had been a 170-pound adult pig — had vanished ...