Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

Last year, surgeons in the US carried out the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a male subject, who ...

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

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

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

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, ...

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

Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief ...

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

"This is a useful test of the compatibility of genetically modified livers with humans and points to a ... But Towana Looney, ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver ... team said it has also done pig-to-monkey heart, kidney, cornea, skin and bone ...