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 might eventually be ...

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

WASHINGTON — 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 might ...

Replacing a human organ with a pig’s is complicated, said Dr. Shimul Shah, an expert in xenotransplantation — the transplant of animal organs into humans — and division chief of abdominal ...

A PIG’S liver has been ... that cannot be provided by animal experiments alone.” Liver may not have worked long-term Professor Peter Friend, a transplant expert at Oxford University, was ...

The findings are the latest to suggest that animal ... far from seeing pig-derived livers and other organs becoming commonplace. In recent years, scientists have begun to transplant pig kidneys ...

This was crucial to help prevent the recipient from rejecting the pig organ – a regular hurdle in animal-to-human transplants. The transplant follows more than 10 years of research into this ...

The pig for this surgery was provided by Dr Deng-Ke Pan at Clonorgan Biotechnology Company. The transplant follows more than 10 years of research into this process on animals. In 2013, scientists ...

In the U.S. last year, surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania attempted that sort of “bridge” support by externally attaching a pig liver to a brain-dead human body to filter blood, much like ...