What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

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

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

The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as ...

Over 10 days, the porcine liver produces bile and porcine albumin, maintains stable blood flow, and shows no signs of ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks after surgery, ...

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

Patients with severe liver disease could one day be kept alive with livers transplanted from pigs, scientists say. A team in ...

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, ...

Chinese doctors said Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for ...