Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants ... pig kidney. The same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into ...

"This is the world's first case of a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a brain-dead human ... and non-vital organs (kidney), such as the temporary replacement of the diseased liver ...

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

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

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about ... Wang says the team also recently transplanted a pig kidney into a human, and that patient should be well enough to go home ...

It’s the longest a human has ... animal organs into humans. Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.