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

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

Chinese researchers have reported new advancements in the pursuit of animal-to-human organ transplants, successfully ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks after surgery, ...

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

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 ...

Chinese scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human recipient, in a world first. Researchers at the ...

In 2013, scientists performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also been successful. But whilst those organs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have had some successes transplanting gene-edited pig kidneys and hearts into people, but liver transplants have proven to be more complicated. “The heart just functions as a heart ...