Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

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

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing ...

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 ...

Asia's first gene-edited pig kidney transplant patient has maintained stable kidney function for more than 30 days after ...

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, ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from pigs into monkeys, including a pig heart, kidney, cornea, and bone. The ...

Currently, the longest of which has survived for approximately four months. Towana Looney, a 53-year-old patient, received a pig kidney transplant in late November 2024. Interestingly, in the liver ...

A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks after surgery, ...

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 ...

A Chinese patient is the third person in world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney. And the same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person.