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 ...

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 ...

Canadian consumers are largely fine with pork from gene-edited pigs — at least once the science and benefits are explained to ...

Canadian and U.S. farmers may get pigs resistant to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) in the ...

A Chinese patient is the third person in the world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney. The same research team ...

The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as ...

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

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