"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Surgeons in China successfully transplanted a pig lung ...

Facing a shortage of organs needed by tens of thousands of patients, scientists have been studying pig organs as a potential solution. Genetically modified to suit humans and transplanted in the same ...

In a New York operating room one day in October 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient as part of a clinical trial. The kidney had ...

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 ...