A groundbreaking medical milestone was achieved with the first successful transplantation of a genetically engineered pig ...

Mr Andrews contacted the medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH) that had carried out the operation. On January ...

With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited ...

Mr Andrews contacted the medical team at Mass General Hospital ( MGH), the hospital in Massachusetts that had carried out the ...

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, and ...

(Monday 30 June 2025, London, United Kingdom) A pioneering study has provided unprecedented insights into the immune response following pig-to-human kidney xenotransplantation. 1 The findings, ...

Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a human. The 39-year-old patient was a brain dead individual and the lungs were viable and functioning for nine ...

A New Hampshire man lived with a pig kidney for a record 271 days before surgeons removed it last week as the organ's ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants — with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful ...

Tim Andrews was the fourth patient in the United States to receive a pig kidney transplant. He will now return to dialysis ...

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 ...

The xenotransplantation comes on the heels of recent transplants of pig hearts and kidneys into medical patients. Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a ...