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

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

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

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

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

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

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the ...

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

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, ...

Last year, surgeons in the US carried out the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a male subject, who ...

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

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 ...