Canadian and U.S. farmers may get pigs resistant to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) in the ...

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

Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief ...

A Chinese research team has successfully completed the world's first transplant of a gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead human, with the organ showing good physiological function, Xinhua reported ...

Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...

A recent study estimates if ASFV reached the United States it could result in economic losses exceeding $50 billion over a ten-year period.

Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, ...

In the U.S. last year, surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania attempted that sort of “bridge” support by externally attaching a pig liver to a brain-dead human body to filter blood, much like ...

The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as "xenotransplantation". But will pig livers eventually replace human organ transplants?

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