A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is replacing animal testing with human-relevant methods, including artificial ...

In other news, the US Food and Drug Administration is now reducing animal testing for drug development and will replace it with new models and better, and more ethical tools. Read on to know.

It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig organ, marking another step forward in the burgeoning field of xenotransplantation, or the practice of transplanting animal organs into humans.

A milestone was reached in animal ... living pig organ but by making a pig kidney possible for patients waiting (and some dying) on the transplant list, a new option and hope for life," the ...

While the initial results are promising, Peter Friend, an organ transplant specialist at the University of Oxford, tells New Scientist that the best way to gauge the health of the animals’ organs ...

Cells are the smallest unit of life. Cells in multicellular plants and animals are arranged into tissues, organs and organ systems. Cells. Tissues. Organs. Organ systems. And the organism itself.