Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.
Scientists Transplant a Gene-Edited Pig Liver Into a Person
The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...
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A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Hooked to a Human for 10 Days and It Actually Worked
What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...
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Gene-edited pig liver functions 10 days in human, marking a medical breakthrough
Recently, they have achieved a medical milestone. Scientists have announced that they successfully maintained the function of ...
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First gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a brain-dead person
In a medical first, a research team in China has successfully stitched a CRISPR gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead ...
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Chinese woman is third person to get a gene-edited pig kidney
A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks after surgery, ...
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Gene-edited pigs get consumer traction
Canadian and U.S. farmers may get pigs resistant to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) in the ...
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Chinese researchers successfully transplant pig kidney to human, take step for first-ever pig liver transplant
A Chinese patient is the third person in the world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney. The same research team ...
First gene-edited pig liver into human patient in China functioned for 10 days, study finds
The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as ...
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Second Pig Kidney Transplant Success and FDA Trial Approval
Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...
First-Ever Transplant of Pig Liver Into Human Marks Milestone in Organ Science
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, ...
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First gene-edited pig liver transplant 'worked for 10 days'
Last year, surgeons in the US carried out the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a male subject, who ...