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

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

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing ...

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

Scientists continue to explore ways to improve organ functionality and prevent immune system rejection. If successful, pig ...

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 PIG’S liver has been transplanted into a living human for the first time by Chinese scientists. Surgeons have grafted ...

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

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

Wang says the team also recently transplanted a pig kidney into a human ... how do we advance liver xenotransplantation? Because we need more work like this,” Shah said of the new research.

But two additional pig kidney recipients so far are thriving ... But Wang pointed to a potential next step in xenotransplantation — learning to transplant pig livers. His team reported ...