A team of scientists successfully transplanted a gene-edited ... kidney disease. The 62-year-old recipient suffered an episode of acute rejection eight days after the transplant when white blood ...

with the transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney and the pig's thymus gland -- which makes white blood cells to help the immune system fight disease -- to help prevent rejection.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers ...