In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

In 2013, scientists performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also been successful. But whilst those organs ...

The transplant follows more than 10 years of research into this process on animals. In 2013, scientists performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart ...

Chinese doctors said that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for the first ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from pigs into monkeys, including a pig heart, kidney, cornea, and bone. The ...

The scientists – who performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant in China more than ... similar to those made in recently reported heart and kidney xenotransplants and a cross-circulation ...

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.

In 2013, scientists performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also been successful but while those organs have ...

But the researchers note that theirs is the first peer-reviewed study to document the bona fide transplantation of a gene-edited pig liver into a person. “It’s a great achievement,” said ...