A genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man and functioned for nine days, according to a newly published report. There has been some recent success transplanting pig kidneys ...
One year ago, Tim Andrews was among the world’s first recipients of a genetically modified pig kidney. Now, he is the first ...
In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for almost half a year. The 71-year-old man's own liver was irreversibly scarred by ...
Could organs explanted from other mammals save human lives someday? A new study shows that genetically modified pig hearts developed by US and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich ...
NEW YORK — U.S. regulators have approved a genetically modified pig for food and medical products, making it the second such animal to get the green light for human consumption. But the company behind ...