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

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

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

Efforts to transplant animal organs into humans reached a milestone, when researchers in China reported that a patient ...

The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as ...

Chinese doctors have made a historic breakthrough by successfully transplanting a genetically engineered pig liver into a ...

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

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, ...

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

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the ...

Successful pig-to-human kidney transplants are raising hope among some in the medical community who think the treatment could ...

Breakthrough by Chinese scientists could lead to pig livers being used to keep people alive while they await a suitable human ...