Potential organ donors are screened for viruses, bacteria and other infections, but rabies isn’t usually among those tests.

A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant, health officials said. The ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint that pig livers might eventually be useful, ...

THURSDAY, March 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig ...

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

Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief ...

Scientists continue to explore ways to improve organ functionality and prevent immune system rejection. If successful, pig ...

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing ...

Upon restoring blood flow during the surgery, the kidney turned ... world's first successful gene-edited pig-to-brain-dead recipient xenogeneic orthotopic whole liver transplantation performed ...