Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

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

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, and ...

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

In the U.S. last year, surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania attempted that sort of “bridge” support by externally ...

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 first transplant of a pig's liver into a human recipient has been carried out by scientists in China, according to a new ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

The surgery in medical history, conducted last year, is a breakthrough in research on xenotransplantation—the transplantation of organs from animals to humans. In the experiment, the pig liver ...

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, thus reducing the chances of rejection. One common edit, for instance, ...