In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for ...

A pig kidney successfully functioned in a human body for about two months, marking the longest documented case of a xenotransplant of its kind. In July, researchers at NYU Langone Health transplanted ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung ...

A pig-to-human transplant center is being built in Minnesota, local media has reported. United Therapeutics, a U.S. biotech company, has purchased 32 acres of land in Stewartville for $4.5 million to ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and ...

Medics have transplanted a pig liver into a human in a world first. The patient, a 71-year-old man, lived for almost half a ...

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 brain-dead, and ...

Scientists have, for the first time, transplanted a genetically engineered pig lung into a human. The lung tissue remained alive for nine days after the transplant despite early signs of inflammation, ...

Maryland-based United Therapeutics, a $14 billion pharmaceutical and biotech firm, is building a new 65,000-square-foot, $110 million pathogen-free facility on the edge of Stewartville to raise ...

Dr. Jun Wu and associates of the Salk Institute have published a report on the successful growth of human stem cells in pig embryos. The project may have implications for transplant organ development, ...