Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful ...

As a bioethicist and philosopher explains the ethics of using organs grown in animals for human transplant procedures. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...