In a world-first, Chinese researchers have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig liver into a living human, ...

Medics have transplanted a pig liver into a human in a world first. The patient, a 71-year-old man, lived for almost half a year after the procedure.

A study shows that genetically engineered pig livers can sustain essential liver functions in humans. A groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Hepatology has documented the first successful ...

The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung ...

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for almost half a year. The 71-year-old man's own liver was irreversibly scarred by ...

A genetically modified pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead human patient functioned for nine days in a new achievement that reveals both the promise and significant challenges of ...

Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results. By Roni Caryn Rabin Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to ...

The patient, a 71-year-old man, lived for almost half a year thereafter - demonstrating both the promise and hurdles that ...