Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.

Organ chip technology is still at an early stage. Emulate has focused first on using the tools to test drug safety. The next step is to do more testing of efficacy, so researchers can better ...

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.

Transplanting animal organs into humans, known as xenotransplantation, has long felt like science fiction. But in the past few years, several such procedures have taken place using organs from ...