Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.
The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...
What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...
Canadian consumers are largely fine with pork from gene-edited pigs — at least once the science and benefits are explained to ...
Recently, they have achieved a medical milestone. Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of ...
In a medical first, a research team in China has successfully stitched a CRISPR gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead ...
A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks after surgery, ...
Canadian and U.S. farmers may get pigs resistant to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) in the ...
The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as ...
Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...
Last year, Penn Medicine did the first successful external liver perfusion using a gene-edited pig liver. Blood in a brain-dead patient circulated through a pig’s liver that was outside the ...