Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable human organs. More than 100,000 people are on the US transplant list ...

The kidney was removed Friday, The Times said. United Therapeutics Corporation, the biotech company that created the pig used in the transplant, said the organ had functioned well until the ...

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body WASHINGTON -- U ...

In 2016, Looney was added to the kidney transplant list following her pregnancy ... Looney wouldn’t receive a human kidney. Instead, a pig’s kidney would be surgically implanted inside the ...

Instead of a full transplant, researchers plan to hook patients up to a machine that attaches the pig liver externally. The device — made by OrganOx — pumps the patient's blood through the pig ...

Researchers won't transplant the pig liver but instead will attach it externally to study participants. The liver is the only organ that can regenerate, but the question is whether having the pig ...

And in that surgery, they put the pig kidney into the donor. And it turns pink immediately, which is the big sign for a kidney transplant surgery. That’s what you wanna see, is this moment where ...