Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from pigs into monkeys, including a pig heart, kidney, cornea, and bone. The ...

The same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person. Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants ...

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

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 patient ...

They then transplanted the liver from the pig to the brain-dead recipient. They used “a very elegant surgical technique, which allows the insertion of a (relatively small) xeno-liver with ...

In 2021, a team performed the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead person. The kidney was attached to blood vessels in the upper leg outside the belly and covered ...