In a first-of-its-kind experiment, doctors in China transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead person. The recent experiment, described Monday (Aug. 25) in the journal ...

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the procedure, and 38 of those days were with the pig organ in place – a first ...

Surgeons in China have for the first time transplanted a section of liver extracted from a genetically modified pig into a human cancer patient, they reported on Thursday. The surgeons, who described ...

For the first time, surgeons have grafted part of a liver from a genetically modified pig onto a human patient’s organ, marking another major advancement for transplant medicine. In a new paper ...

In a first, scientists in China transplanted a lung from a pig into a human so they could see how the host immune system handled the procedure. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...