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

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

For the last couple of years, Gloria Gebur had been waiting for an organ transplant donor, as her health deteriorated and she battled a disease that causes chronic liver failure. She finally found one ...

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

"It's like a second opportunity at life, to do things better than before," transplant recipient Sergio Arias Cestoni told ...

What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

Chinese media have reported she is a 69-year-old woman diagnosed with kidney failure eight years ago. But Wang pointed to a ...

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ... would be a major advance for people with acute liver failure, even as a temporary bridge while awaiting a human donor ...

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

Also, the study only observed one person for a relatively short time. The results might not hold for other demographics, and the transplant could falter down the road. And because the volunteer still ...