A small group of researchers believe the organ donor crisis could be solved not with donors, but with pigs. Here's the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The word “chimera” usually evokes images of mythological, multi-headed beasts, but the term also comes with more modern, scientific connotations. For ...