One year ago, Tim Andrews was among the world’s first recipients of a genetically modified pig kidney. Now, he is the first ...

Picture this: a 3D printer that can build a viable human organ at the push of a button. Sounds futuristic, but Dallas researchers are aiming to make that a reality. UT Southwestern Medical Center ...

The funding, part of a new ARPA-H bioprinting initiative, aims to create transplant-ready organs—potentially within ...

Unlike traditional transplant approaches, the goal is not to permanently replace a failing liver, but to create a temporary, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Animal Pharm” on Sunday, May 18, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN. There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re ...

Researchers are developing functional, patient-specific livers using 3D bioprinting and stem cell technology to eliminate the ...

Miniature organs have a new lifeline. Mimicking the way early human embryos grow blood vessels, scientists nudged multiple types of mini organs to sprout their own vascular networks. Also called ...

New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

Human organs could be bioprinted for transplants within 10 years, according to Lithuanian startup Vital3D. But before reaching human hearts and kidneys, the company is starting with something simpler: ...

Animal organ transplants are a stop-gap to buy time for patients in search of a human match, as organ donation shortages ...