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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The first transplant of a pig's liver into a human recipient has been carried out by scientists in China, according to a new ...

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

PARIS: Chinese doctors said on Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead ...

While many researchers have praised the progress made, they have also emphasised that the results are not conclusive proof ...

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