“Is this organ really going to work like a human organ? So far it’s looking like it is,” said Dr. Robert Montgomery with NYU Langone Health Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has ...

New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs.

• A pig kidney with just one genetic modification functioned in a human for 61 days before being removed as planned, more than doubling previous survival records for animal-to-human transplants. • The ...

Although brain-dead organ donors have routinely been maintained on life-support until recipients of their donor organs could be identified, UAB is now the first to publish the results of this novel ...

An effort to expand how you lay your loved ones to rest in Georgia passed its second floor vote, putting it on its way to the governor’s office for approval. Senate Bill 241 would allow dead Georgians ...

The shortage of donor kidneys continues to leave thousands of patients without treatment options. Now, researchers at Columbia University and NYU Langone Health have shown that a minimally edited pig ...

Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure. The ...

REDLANDS, Calif. -- Human remains were found underneath the home of the suspect arrested in connection with the disappearance of a missing Redlands couple, authorities confirmed Friday. Michael Royce ...

Last week's disturbing news that the Harvard Medical School morgue director had allegedly been selling body parts from donated cadavers has shocked the Harvard community and beyond. Morgue director ...

Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and the author of three books on death and the funeral industry. She founded the Order of the Good Death, a nonprofit that promotes end-of-life alternatives. Eight years ...