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

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However ...

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

Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

The 47-year-old Queens resident received a heart, kidney and liver at North Shore University Hospital on Feb. 8, during the first-ever triple transplant of those organs on Long Island ...

“However, this unique pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation can still provide critical information that cannot be provided by animal experiments alone.” Liver transplantation is the most ...

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 ...

An investigation confirmed the patient contracted rabies through the organ. A Michigan resident has died of rabies after apparently undergoing an organ transplant, health officials said.

The liver of a pig with six genetic edits was transplanted into a brain-dead human whose basic bodily ... Multiple gene-edited pig heart and kidney transplants have been reported worldwide in ...

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed with brain death. During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver ...

Over the past few years, pigs have reportedly emerged as the most viable source for animal-to-human organ transplants. The United States has already seen multiple cases where patients have ...