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 the first time in a ‘milestone’ for organ transfers between animals and people. Scientists in China used a liver taken from a ...

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

Chinese scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human recipient, in a world first. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an used a genetically modified ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the first time, however, a pig liver has been transplanted into a human. Rafael Matesanz, founder of the National Transplant Organisation in Spain, said: ‘This is the world’s first ...

“This is the world’s first case of a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a brain-dead human. “The ultimate goal of the experiment was not to achieve a standard liver ...