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

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

A successful pig liver transplant would be a major advance ... Wang says the team also recently transplanted a pig kidney into a human, and that patient should be well enough to go home soon.

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

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from pigs into monkeys, including a pig heart, kidney, cornea, and bone. The ...

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

Asia's first gene-edited pig kidney transplant patient has maintained stable kidney function for more than 30 days after ...

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

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

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

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

A Chinese patient is the third person ... 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 ...