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

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient. The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to ...

Writing in the journal Nature, he added: “Auxiliary liver transplantation is an ideal bridge therapy for people with liver failure, because it is not difficult to remove pig liver and ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... Transplant Organisation in Spain, said: “This is the world’s first case of a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into ...

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 ...

Chinese Researchers Report a Pig Kidney Transplant and a First-Step Liver Experiment WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ ...