Human head transplants are also known as cephalosomatic anastomosis, and at the moment, are not actually possible and likely won't be before 2030. Some researchers have tested a human head transplant ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Groundbreaking surgery by doctors at NYU Langone successfully transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney and thymus into the body of a man who is brain dead. NYU Langone says it is a big ...

The idea of taking two humans, putting them in nearby isolation chambers, and swapping their heads is a profoundly science-fiction idea – ditto the idea of taking a human brain, and implanting it in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a human. The 39-year-old patient was a brain ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, doctors in China transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead person. The recent experiment, described Monday (Aug. 25) in the journal ...

A crackdown on problems with fairness and safety is achieving results, including a big drop in the number of sick patients ...

The frontiers of xenotransplantation have been further extended with a pig-to-human lung transplant, the first time an organ that is directly exposed to the external environment – with the associated ...