A genetically modified porcine liver has been successfully transplanted into a human subject, constituting a historic ...

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, ...

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

Chinese doctors announced on Wednesday that they had successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said. The blood flow to the organ was good ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing ...

On the morning of March 10, 2024, in an operating room in Xi’an, China, surgeons connected a living human body to a gene-edited pig liver. A brain-dead patient, with his family’s consent ...