Surgeon Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin is a leader in the novel field of xenotransplantation—transferring organs from one species to another—in his case, from pigs to humans.

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

A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the ... the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also ...

Pigs are promising sources of organs, but the human immune system ... including a pig heart, kidney, cornea, and bone. The group also performed a skin transplant using gene-edit pig skin into ...

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

This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant. She has returned to dialysis and awaits future transplant possibilities. Towana Looney lived for more than four months with ...

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 ...

Chinese scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human recipient ... first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs ...

A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the ... the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also ...