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

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

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

Gene-modified pig liver transplanted into human shows potential as bridge therapy for liver failure patients, but long-term outcomes unknown.

Researchers in China have carried out the first transplant of a pig liver, genetically modified to prevent immune rejection, into a brain-dead human patient. The transplant functioned for 10 days ...

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In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a pig kidney, and she's doing well after nearly three weeks post-surgery.

More than 2 decades have passed since I became the first full-time editor of Renal & Urology News. During that time, the ...

Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief duration. In a 50-year-old brain-dead recipient, the transplanted liver ...