Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney ...

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

What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

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, ...

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

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

One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs ...

Chinese surgeons have transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead person, showing that the liver ...

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 ...