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

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

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 ...

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

eGenesis, based in Cambridge, Mass., developed the pig kidneys used in recent transplants. Kidneys are the most in-demand organ for solid organ transplants in Canada. According to the Canadian ...

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 ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike in hopes of alleviating a transplant shortage. Two initial xenotransplants in the U.S. — two pig hearts and two pig ...