U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

Although the setup required to accomplish this feat is currently complicated, this finding could provide more understanding about how the brain perceives colour and could one day help boost the vision ...

FDA approves first human trial to transplant pig livers, offering hope for patients with severe liver failure.

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover ...

Treatment options are limited for those with sudden liver failure and the condition has a death rate as high as 50%.

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 ...

The first trial to test whether genetically modified pig livers can be used safely to treat people with organ failure has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. As part of the trial ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile ...

The new study will attach the pig liver to up to 20 patients in a bid to give their own livers time to regenerate. Scientists will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat ...

Genesis has gained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance on an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for a ...

A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a ...