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

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney ...

What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

Patients with severe liver disease could one day be kept alive with livers transplanted from pigs, scientists say. A team in ...

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, thus reducing the chances of rejection. One common edit, for instance, ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

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

Asia's first gene-edited pig kidney transplant patient has maintained stable kidney function for more than 30 days after ...

The first transplant of a pig's liver into a human recipient has been carried out by scientists in China, according to a new ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...