One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs for transplantation. More than 100,000 people in the US are waiting for a ...

Although the setup required to accomplish this feat is currently complicated, this finding could provide more understanding ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig ...

The new study will attach the pig liver to up to 20 patients in a bid to give their own livers time to regenerate.View on ...

Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited pig kidneys, hearts, and now livers into the human body. © l i g h t p o e t via Shutterstock We’ve reached a ...

Looney's transplant was part of a larger effort to provide genetically engineered pig organs to help solve the human organ shortage. A handful of other patients have received pig kidneys and hearts.

Scientists have been exploring alternatives for decades, including using pig organs because of their similarity to human organs. Last year, Penn Medicine did the first successful external liver ...

If there’s even a tiny mismatch between how pig and human organs work, “I think we’re going to have problems.” But there’s certainly a need for new solutions for liver-failure patients ...

According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical research. A steadily growing idea is one known as “bodyoids”—biological ...