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 ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

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

A scientific breakthrough has welcomed the first wave of 'super horses' being born after they were genetically engineered in ...

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

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 ...

An investigation confirmed the patient contracted rabies through the organ. A Michigan resident has died of rabies after apparently undergoing an organ transplant, health officials said.

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.