A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig ... animal-to-human organ transplant, or xenotransplant, was made possible through advancements in gene-editing and cloning.

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

CD40L is an attractive drug development target for transplant ... organs from these animals possible. Makana’s focus on scientifically validated genetics, optimized pig cloning techniques ...

So why not take a look at the animals themselves? Biotechnological tools, such as nucleases (enzymes) like Crispr/Cas, are increasingly being used to genetically modify pigs so that they produce ...

marking a landmark episode of kidney transplants from sheep and pigs to human recipients. Remarkably, there were instances of sheep blood transfusions into humans more than two centuries before this ...

Towana Looney's transplanted pig kidney was removed after 130 days due to rejection. This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant ... with an animal organ ‒ suddenly ...