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 ...

May 14—STEWARTVILLE, Minn. — A very different kind of "hog farm" is being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited pigs in a $110 million pathogen-free ...

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 ...

Richard Slayman, the first person to ever receive a kidney from a pig, has died, according to Massachusetts General Hospital, where the transplant was performed in March. In a statement late Saturday, ...

Spanish scientists have successfully combined human kidney organoids with pig kidneys and transplanted them back into the ...

Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team ...

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, ...

For the first time in history, scientists in China have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a human patient. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature, the team of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A research team led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and collaborating with the Biomedical Research ...