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

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

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

It's early days for xenotransplantation, but eGenesis, Eledon, United Therapeutics and more are working to develop solutions ...

This week, a Chinese team turned to another source—pig livers—and published the first results showing how they function inside a human recipient. The liver in the study underwent heavy gene editing to ...

A Chinese research team has successfully completed the world's first transplant of a gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead ...

Gene-modified pig liver transplanted into human shows potential as bridge therapy for liver failure patients, but long-term outcomes unknown.

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

Scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human for the first time, raising hopes this could one day ...

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

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...