In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig ... in the future.” Pigs are promising sources of organs, but the human immune ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig ... including using pig organs because of their similarity to human organs.

The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and liver proteins inside the brain-dead transplant ... how pig and human organs work, “I ...

Chinese doctors have made a historic breakthrough by successfully transplanting a genetically engineered pig liver into a human. The organ functioned normally for 10 days without immune rejection or ...

l i g h t p o e t via Shutterstock We’ve reached a new frontier in organ transplantation ... successfully kept a genetically modified pig liver functioning inside a human body—at least ...

the donor liver came from a pig that had been genetically modified to inactivate genes that mediate rejection and to include human transgenes to facilitate compatibility. Before transplant ...

In a groundbreaking medical achievement, a team of surgeons in China has successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a human patient declared brain-dead. This milestone in the ...