Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miniature pig waits for visitors to feed it at a zoo in Shanghai, China, on Thursday Feb. 15, 2007. (AP ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers ...

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 ...

FILE - A miniature pig waits for visitors to feed it at a zoo in Shanghai, China, on Thursday Feb. 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) ...

To make the organ more compatible with the human body, scientists made six gene edits to a liver from a Bama miniature pig. When the surgeons placed the pig organ in the patient, they still kept ...

Scientists in China used a liver taken from a seven-month old Bama miniature pig which had been genetically modified to reduce the risk of rejection. Once removed, it was kept ‘alive’ using a ...

Robert St. John writes that the pigs in southern Spain live a life that would put most other pigs—and probably a few ...

We look at the science behind the most complex organ transplant so far carried out between a human and a pig The researchers transplanted the liver from a Bama miniature pig, a laboratory line of ...

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Patients with severe liver disease could one day be kept alive with livers transplanted from pigs, scientists say. A team in China successfully transplanted the liver from a miniature pig that had ...