This is the first step towards the use of gene editing therapies to treat a wide variety of rare genetic disorders for which ...

Researchers in China have carried out the first transplant of a pig liver, genetically modified to prevent immune rejection, into a brain-dead human patient. The transplant functioned for 10 days ...

The goal is to reuse key parts of the treatment and simply swap in a custom set of instructions for each patient's specific gene mutation, doctors say.

KJ Muldoon became the first patient to undergo personalized CRISPR treatment, a therapy that found the one uniquely mutated gene out of 20,000 in his little body, and fixed it.

While thousands linger on organ waiting lists, the national transplant network is ditching 40-year-old systems and struggling ...

Shares of TransMedics Group ( TMDX 6.54%) recently bounded higher in response to a first-quarter earnings report that was a ...

At 2 months old, Mattie Beacham was diagnosed with biliary atresia, a rare disease of the liver and bile ducts ...

After Andy Sandness was left with devastating facial injuries, he became the recipient of one of the most complex face ...

In a historic medical breakthrough, a child diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully treated with a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy by a team at Children's Hospital of ...

The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other ...

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A planned liver transplant surgery in city was abruptly cancelled on Monday after a technical glitch forced the suspension of city’s 64th green corridor operation.