A man lived for 171 days with a genetically modified pig liver, the greatest advance to date in xenotransplantation.

They manage to stabilize a patient with liver failure using a genetically modified pig liver. The organ was not transplanted ...

Robert Montgomery prepares a pig kidney for transplant into a brain-dead man in New York in July 2023. Scientists have successfully stopped a pig kidney from being rejected by its human recipient. The ...

A pioneering clinical trial, the world's first to transplant gene-edited pig kidneys into people, has commenced. United Therapeutics, a producer of these specialised organs, announced on Monday that ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really save lives. United Therapeutics, a producer of gene-edited pig kidneys, ...

NEW YORK — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in ...

Imagine taking your SUV in for a new fuel pump, only to have the mechanic dismantle a nearby motorcycle and pronounce, “This ...

One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and shows ...

Scientists have successfully stopped a pig kidney from being rejected by its human recipient. The organ survived for 61 days in the recipient, a 57-year-old brain-dead man in the United States, the ...

FILE - Surgeons at NYU Langone Health prepare to transplant a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man in New York on July 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum, File) (Shelby Lum ...