Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

Scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human for the first time, raising hopes this could one day ...

Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of a genetically modified pig liver for a brief ...

The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as ...

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These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, thus reducing the chances of rejection. One common edit, for instance, ...

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

To make the organ more compatible with the human body, scientists made six gene edits to a liver from a Bama miniature pig. When the surgeons placed the pig organ in the patient, they still kept ...

Chinese surgeons have transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead person, showing that the liver ...

For 8 months, the researchers fed Nongda control minipigs (n = 4) a normal diet and fed Bama, Wuzhishan and Nongda minipigs (n = 6 per group) a high-sucrose, high-fat diet. They measured the ...