In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct trials transplanting genetically-modifie ...

A team in China successfully transplanted the liver from a miniature pig that had been genetically modified to prevent rejection into a brain-dead human. Observing the organ’s function for 10 ...

Chinese doctors said Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead human for the first time, raising hopes of a life-saving donor option for patients ...

After years of trial and error, scientists have finally done something incredible: They have successfully grown human stem cells in a pig embryo. Why would anyone do this? Turns out, many ...

She has been working in journalism for seven years. A pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a human for the first time without rejection, experts have announced. On Sept. 25 ...

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the investigation with no signs of rejection. For 10 days, the liver performed its basic ...

(CNN) — Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was ...

According to the interview with Future Human, Revivicor’s latest GMO pig has a total of ten modifications that are designed to aid in transplant acceptance. They turned off four pig genes ...