In 2013, scientists performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also been successful. But whilst those organs ...

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 ...

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

World's first recipient of pig kidney died due to heart attack Rick Slayman was the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig. Rick died in 2024 due to an ...

Griffith, MD, who surgically transplanted the pig heart into both the first and second patient at UMMC. Dr. Griffith is the Thomas E. and Alice Marie Hales Distinguished Professor in Transplant ...

Chinese doctors have made a historic breakthrough by successfully transplanting a genetically engineered pig liver into a human. The organ functioned normally for 10 days without immune rejection ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from pigs into monkeys, including a pig heart, kidney, cornea, and bone. The ...

Chinese surgeons have transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead person, showing that the liver can function in a human and extending a strategy previously attempted with ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

In 2013, scientists performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also been successful but while those organs have ...