Surgeon leading xenotransplantation trial aimed at solving shortage of human organs says edits can lessen risk of rejection ...

These pig organs have been gene-edited at 10 different sites to minimize rejection by the human body. If approved by the US ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale ...

A US clinical trial using gene-edited pig kidneys has begun, with experts saying xenotransplantation could one day offer ...

Novel research led by Brazilian scientists describes the immune system's reactions in detail in the first living patient to ...

eGenesis’ pigs are genetically modified so that their organs are more compatible with human recipients. Key to this effort is using a tool called CRISPR to knock out the gene responsible for a ...

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 seven-month ...

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for almost half a year. The 71-year-old man's own liver was irreversibly scarred by ...

A genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man and functioned for nine days, according to a newly published report. There has been some recent success transplanting pig kidneys ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The calls and emails started coming into NYU Langone Health and Massachusetts General Hospital soon after doctors began experimenting with pig organs in humans. People worried ...

(CNN) — Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the next step: larger-scale clinical trials. eGenesis, one of the ...

Without that, a human body would reject a pig organ almost immediately. There have been a handful of such procedures, called xenotransplants, performed in the US, including pig kidney transplants at ...