"This is an important experiment, which opens up a different path to what has been tried so far in both vital organs (heart ... patient's liver, but what is known as an auxiliary transplant. The ...

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...

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

Blood in a brain-dead patient circulated ... to successfully transplant a pig liver into a monkey, which survived 14 days. The team said it has also done pig-to-monkey heart, kidney, cornea ...

In January 2022, a dying man in the US became the first patient in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig. David Bennett, who was suffering from terminal heart ...

Griffith, MD, who surgically transplanted the pig heart into both the first and second patient at UMMC. Dr. Griffith is the Thomas E. and Alice Marie Hales Distinguished Professor in Transplant ...

The patient was clinically brain dead before ... Mr Bennett, the first person to have a genetically modified pig heart transplant, was found to have a pig-derived infection after his death.

At the request of the patient’s family ... including a pig heart, kidney, cornea, and bone. The group also performed a skin transplant using gene-edit pig skin into a person with severe burns.