Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

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 ...

What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

The first transplant of a pig's liver into a human recipient has been carried out by scientists ... Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also been successful but ...

“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 ...

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 ...

This surgery is part of a growing effort to use genetically altered pig organs to help deal with a shortage of human organs for transplant. Wang and his team are also testing pig livers.