On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

The new study will attach the pig liver to up to 20 patients in a bid to give their own livers time to regenerate. View on ...

In experiments with four deceased bodies, that “bridge” attempt showed the pig liver could support some functions of a human liver for two or three days, said Mike Curtis, CEO of Massachusetts-based ...

Pigs bred for animal-to-human organ transplant experiments are usually genetically modified to reduce the chance that the ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

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

In terms of historical precedent, the advent of xenotransplantation was documented in 1906, marking a landmark episode of kidney transplants from sheep and pigs to human ... backdrop of radical ...

Transplantation of a gene-modified ... Advances in gene editing have made it possible to modify pig organs to reduce the risk of rejection and improve compatibility with human recipients.

Chinese doctors have made a historic breakthrough by successfully transplanting a genetically engineered pig liver into a human ... transplant entailed massive gene modification to ensure the ...

Recent advances in gene editing have made animal-to-human transplants ... they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief duration.

the donor liver came from a pig that had been genetically modified to inactivate genes that mediate rejection and to include human transgenes to facilitate compatibility. Before transplant ...

A Chinese medical team has successfully completed the world’s first transplant ... human, with the organ showing good physiological function, state media reported. The liver of a pig with six ...