Tokyo police said July 7 they have arrested three members of a medical association on suspicion of receiving payments for ...

It was the first time for Japanese police to take action against suspected organ transplant mediation for fees, according to ...

The de facto head of a Japanese nonprofit organization and two other men were arrested Tuesday for allegedly brokering an ...

Japanese authorities have arrested suspects accused of brokering overseas organ transplants for profit. Tokyo's Metropolitan ...

A Meiji University-related start-up announced plans to begin Japan’s first clinical trial of transplanting organs from cloned pigs into human patients as early as 2028.

A controversial experiment to create “human-animal hybrids” using gene-manipulation science has been approved in Japan. Scientists will now attempt to grow human organs inside rats and mice — with the ...

TOKYO - A Japanese startup said Monday it will conduct clinical trials of pig kidney transplants to humans at two hospitals as early as 2028, which if successful would likely make them the first of ...

In an effort to address its ongoing organ donor shortage crisis, Japan has started breeding the first pigs genetically engineered for human organ transplants. This significant success, announced by ...

Japanese police arrested three people Tuesday, including a former executive of a now-defunct nonprofit organization that supported patients of incurable diseases, on suspicion of illegally brokering ...