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 pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for ... In 2013, scientists performed the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

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 ...

A Chinese medical team has successfully completed the world’s first transplant of a gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead human ... a gene-engineered pig kidney into a uremic patient.

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed ... the journal Nature — is the first known peer-reviewed publication ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about ... Wang says the team also recently transplanted a pig kidney into a human, and that patient should be well enough to go home ...

Towana Looney's transplanted pig kidney was removed after 130 days due to rejection. This was the longest a human had survived ... "For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends ...

It’s the longest a human has ... animal organs into humans. Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late ...